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How does our Janakpuri nursery look after an year?

We began setting up our nursery of native trees in June 2020. We reused waste plastic packets such as those of milk, detergent powder, savouries, snacks etc. We sowed the seeds of the fruits we consumed and we also extracted some stray saplings.

And thanks to people's love, we also got contributions of healthy saplings into our own nursery. This nursery will help us become 'atmanirbhar' (self-reliant) for our plantation drives, at least to some extent. So now we have some peepal, neem, amaltas, jamun, mango, pilkhan, bakain and goolar.

How we began and how far did we reach? Well, let's not bore you with words. Let the images and the videos below speak to you!

June 2020


June 2021


And a video of our volunteers in action:

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