Welcome to Project GreenHands

Throughout the world dire warnings are being issued about the effects of human activity on the natural environment. Communities on every continent are experiencing the devastation of declining water quality, soil degradation, climate change and biodiversity loss. Project Greenhands (PGH), a grassroots ecological initiative established by Isha Foundation in Tamil Nadu, India, has grown out of deep concern for the global effects of deforestation and land degradation, and in particular, for the rapidly changing ecology of Tamil Nadu.

Drawing extensively on community involvement and large scale volunteer participation, the Project aims to plant 114 million trees state-wide - providing an additional 10% to the existing level of green cover in Tamil Nadu. Since its inception in 2004, PGH has successfully overseen the planting of more than 5 million trees by over one million people.

PGH is an action-driven organization that is committed to developing a hands-on approach that can be easily replicated in rural communities worldwide. Through its activities it aims to inspire people around the world to appreciate the true value of trees and the vital role that they play within human environments.

• Corporate Sponsorship: an open invitation to build relationship and serve community
  Although Project GreenHands works primarily with the rural community, a core underlying objective is to bring all sectors of the community together to work and bond around a shared cause.
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• Sounds Of Isha plays in Mumbai in aid of Project GreenHands
  "One pot, two pot, three pot four!" was the refrain of the folk song that rocked the Nehru Center in Mumbai. A simple little tune that the tribals of Tamil Nadu have been singing for many hundred years...
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• Greening Your Hands
  The crisis of the environment is a social crisis. We created the problem and so we must create the solution. Our world needs to be supported to support us and respected enough to be enabled to flourish. Project GreenHands has discovered that caring for and planting saplings...
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