Hello friends!
It is a mixed level of excitement to share with you that, last year I have opened a plantation challenge for environment, food and economy of the rural communities in Nepal that is One Million Trees Challenge campaign, is now about to complete 5000 plants in a year.
During the continuous visits to many different new areas of various parts of urban and rural Nepal, the experiences from previous year was awesome. from two times failure of plantation announcement in the beginning and till now about to finish 5000 plants here some exciting things happen!
- After first successful plantation program in Telkot village https://goo.gl/maps/VQL9dd3yTzG2 (A semi rural village) with special needs children from SERC School Special Education and Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children (SERC) https://www.facebook.com/SERCschool/ so many realization happen to among many participants, such as when villager saw special need children carrying plants and planting in front of their houses, villagers announced that they were going to donate the fruits from their farm. And hence FREE FOOD concept started and now we can expect a continuous supply of ten percent of food and fruits from the production from the community as a donation supported by One Million Trees Challenge, will be for the people who can not afford and it will be for free as well!!!
These days plants grownup till here
- Teachers and students both realized that these special need children can do wonderful things to society Yeah! TREE PLANTATION!!
- Teachers, experts and therapists also realizes that they need to include more village related activities to make their program more practical.
With the help of many friends and well wishers later we planted many trees in various areas in Nepal.
It is a great way to connect with communities and as tree grows slow, we encourage villagers to try something new and we are planting orange fleshed sweet potato as this kind of sweet potato are not popular in Nepal. Also herbs plantation. Recently we have distributed lots of Rosemary to the villagers and many urban parts of Nepal.
In the beginning it is taking lots of visits, time and money to identify places for plantation, making villagers ready for plantation, gathering resources, soil test, plants and other necessary arrangements. It takes $3 to $5 to buy a fruit plant. To cut the cost of production and to create local entrepreneurship I want to setup a nursery in the village. Estimated cost to establish green house on a 27380 square feet of land required $5000 which can able to supply at least 10 Thousands of plants every year and could able to change many lives onward!
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Eagerly waiting for your idea and suggestions to make this event a grand success!
Thank you,
Alok Das
Founder