SUSTAINABLE CITIES & ECOLOGY
MONSOON WOODING
BACKGROUND & RATIONALE
In the wake of the various “developmental” activities that a growing Delhi is seeing, its old green trees are being felled, even as 300 more cars are added to Delhi’s roads everyday - there is a need to conserve, nurture and actively build the green cover in urban cities.
URBAN AFFORESTATION
COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION
HANDS-ON DEVELOPING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Our annual volunteer driven ‘Monsoon Wooding’ campaign aims at greening Delhi and protecting its existing green cover. Monsoon Wooding is our only hope to breathe in this city- we Plant, Protect and Promote Trees during the monsoon months in Delhi, actively planting approximately 5000 trees in Delhi NCR each year and so far have planted and survived over 50000 trees in total. This is done through engaging with communities and potential green spaces,
school and college students and corporate houses.
Swechha has also undertaken an Urban Afforestation Project in partnership with Centre for Environment Research and Education and IndusInd Bank, with a view to increase the green cover of New Delhi by growing indigenous fruiting and non-fruiting tree species in all available open space both private and public so as to improve the urban environment, augment local flora and fauna, sequester carbon and improve the micro-climate of Delhi/NCR.
PROGRAM OUTREACH
Urban Forests
Volunteers
Saplings Distributed
Trees Planted
PROGRAM IMAGES
Get Involved
We are always looking for young and enthusiastic minds that can help us create the change along with being the change. Whatever your passion, we always have opportunities for you along with endless cups of Chai!
SOME OF OUR
TESTIMONIALS
“We always wanted to contribute, didn’t know how. Swechha gave us a path; there were wasps around, mosquito bites, but we didn’t mind it. The cause kept us going..”
Utsav and Kritika
Monsoon Wooding Campaigners
"In a city where each breath is tough to take, Monsoon wooding helped me bring Delhi one step closer to clean air. This is all we have and we are all we have."
Rashid
Volunteer
"What a fantastic experience of working with a team of passionate individuals to create an entire fruit forest! I realised how easy it is to take that step, and make a contribution to the environment. Everybody can. Everybody should. It's now or never".
Yatharth Sharma
S&P Global