Plantation at Vikas Puri

WE PLANTED NEEM, PILKHAN AND AMALTAS!

A relatively pleasant morning greeted us at Vikas Puri’s A Block District Park today. The cloud cover reminded us that we are supposedly in the monsoon season. A delayed one. Again emphasising upon the significance of trees.

We were joined by yet another set of extremely zealous volunteers who not only helped with the whole plantation but also helped raise the energy levels even as we all were sweating doing laborious tasks.

We dug pits for our saplings ourselves. Requires assiduous people for the same! But our volunteers find it so exciting that nearly everyone wanted to try their hands on it.

We simultaneously began planting neem, pilkhan and amaltas saplings. Our new volunteers displayed an enormous amount of eagerness to learn more about the benefits of planting native trees. They learnt about the significance of watering these saplings regularly. The more they learnt, the more fervour they developed towards these saplings.

In the end, there was a mutual understanding and assurance that these saplings would be taken care of on a regular basis. So that they are able to grow and sustain themselves in order to fix the man-made issues in our environment.

We need everyone to do their bit. Join us and help us in our mission!

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