Environment
Our environment community help service is dedicated to fighting climate change and protecting our environment. We are committed to reducing erosion through tree plantation and reforestation initiatives. We are also actively involved in promoting green practices and educating the public about the importance of preserving our environment for future generations.
Our Backyard Tree Planting Project has commenced in two areas of West Bengal. Sunderbans and Susunia, Bankura. We have two NGO's conducting the opertions on the ground. All funds can be donated directly to the NGO's. Click on the Donate button to go to the site.
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Champa Mahila Samiti
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Kalyan Sangha
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Our Projects
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Backyard Family Tree Planting Project
Benefits of increasing the green canopy is many fold - cleaner air, cooler earth, less soil erosion. However in reality creating new extended green coverage in a rapid urbanisation oriented world is not feasible without government planning and support. Seek and Connect aims to keep it simple by executing it at an individual level, maintainable on long term, scalable and sustainable. We motivate villagers to subscribe to growing a couple of trees in their backyard. They prepare the pit for tree planting, we provide the sapling big enough to bear fruit in a year or two, they harvest the fruit for consumption or sale. This increases the green cover and the villager gets the fruits of his labour.
This project will deliver both social and environmental benefit to the Amphan devastated areas of Sunderban which lost a significant tree cover during that time and continue to do so due to severe cyclonic storms.
The community raises funds or receives donations to purchsase fruit trees that are distributed to Below Poverty Line -BPL families commiting to maintaining these in their backyard.
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2022::
Plantation of 500 fruit trees to 500 families across several villages in Sunderban in 2022 with more than 90% trees surving the first year. Even 20% of the trees gave fruits in the first year itself.
2023::
Plantation of 1000 fruit trees to 1000 families across villages in Sunderban in 2023. Implementing lessons learnt from previous year, we saw a survival rate of 95% after the first year.
Plantation of 250 fruit trees to 50 families in Susunia, Bankura, West Bengal in 2023. [We did not recieve adequate feedback to ascertain the viability of this model of 5 trees per family - so discontinued this in 2024]
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2024::
Plantation of 500 fruit trees to 500 families across villages in Sunderban (primarily Mango trees as per popular demand)
Plantation of 100 fruit trees to 100 families in Basirhat,
2025::
Plantation of 500 fruit trees to 500 families across villages in Sunderban (across the following areas Chunakhali Adivasi Para, Bharatgarh No. 5 Adivasi Para, Ranigarh, Goranbose, Choradaktia, Matgaran, Godkhali and Harekrishnapur)
Plantation of 200 timber trees (Mahogany) to 100 families with small children in Basirhat area as a future asset when the child grows to become an adult.
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