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Amrita Vanam: Immortal Forest

Through Amrita Vanam, reforestation project, GreenFriends plant more than 100,000 saplings throughout Kerala alone.

Amrita Vanam is the GreenFriends reforestation programme. The programme encourages people anto plant and maintain saplings. This is done at a large-scale group level by GreenFriends each November. But individual GreenFriends also vow to plant and maintain 18 saplings a year on their own.

Since 2002, as a group GreenFriends has planted 100,000 saplings every November as part of this programme. Currently this is being done in collaboration with the Kerala State Forestry Department, but GreenFriends is in the process of establishing 200 greenhouses of its own, so as to be able to independently generate 100,000 saplings bi-annually.

In fact one not need part of GreenFriends proper to particpate in the Amrita Vanam project. All you have to do is to plant and nurture five, nine or more trees in a single area. GreenFriends specifically focuses on planting trees in temple grounds, in hospitals compounds, near educational institutions, along roadsides and in select public places. But you may plant the trees anywhere you find appropriate.

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