Meaningful Travel & Green Footprints
Meaningful Travel & Green Footprints
Incredible India tours or Community projects with Expedition Leaders and in return to Plant - "A Tree For Clean Air"
We donate long-lasting water filters in rural village schools, so you have clean and germ-free water to be healthy - in return you have to plant and establish trees to preserve forest and fresh air. Our traveller groups will donate trees and help you to plan them. But to establish and look after them is the duty of villagers and schools at each destination.
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| Trees are a crucial part of villages in the Himalayas |
If people visit well established schools or tourist places or modern IT cities, they may miss a lot about the reality of the country, basic and sustainable life villagers live. Himalayan villages offer age-old sustainable ways of living and their way of living in harmony with nature. The Himalayan people and wild animals have found a way to live side by side from centuries. Planting paddy rice or ploughing in the terrace fields with oxen in the Himalayan slopes give a very memorable experience to those who are looking for a meaningful travel to the Himalayas. Many Schools and organisations visit these reasons through some British Raj connections too, such as a well established British school going to a well established Colonial School to India on the Expedition. I don’t think that will change much for the majority of people. Western students cannot touch the needy people or children living and struggling in poverty.
Staying in expensive hotels or seeing the top sites of India does not do justice to the travellers or to these areas, which has much more to offer. We appeal you to step further to a meaningful travel, see how you can help and support these Himalayan communities. Adopt a school, a child or even a village. Make a change through your well thought and meaningful travel. This will be a life-changing visit for villagers and worthwhile experience for you.
Green Footprints and sustainable Travel: Leave Green Footprints...
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| Village ladies watering and worshipping a pipal tree in the Himalayas |
Climate change summits over the years and in France suggested……control over many aspects, but the most crucial point is that we need to look after trees and plant more trees and protect our forests. Up to date science, researches show that we can’t survive without green trees as they exhale the oxygen we breathe in and life can have a stop without it in every form. Himalayan communities worship trees and even have god brother or father type relationships with trees. Old Pipal trees, Bilwa trees and Himalayan Basil Plants are still worshipped in millions of houses today. Our ancestors ask us to regard trees, whatever is so precious, we must highly regard it Godlike. So rivers, trees are still worshipped, no doubt because if a thirsty living thing in the boiling desert is dying for a drop of water, nothing else in the whole world could please him and that drop of water will be divine. When it comes to breathing that is a matter of seconds for life and death, the source of this oxygen are leaves on trees. So we must hold dear to them.
We appeal to every traveller to contribute towards leaving green footprints behind, anywhere they go, find a place, where they sell plants, find an open safe land or forest, where you can plant it and with very little, a villager can help you to establish those trees and you can follow the progress and they will provide breath for many generations. So you will feel while flying back that I have left some green footprints behind. That should be a great sustainable approach to travel today. Join hands with Green hands or any other planting NGO or Groups you have in your area. Just plant, Establish and protect trees.
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| Children sit and learn in the shadow of a tree in their playground |
Asra Charity projects in the Himalayas:
History, Objectives, Successes to date, Future plans. Asra started in 2007 by Puran Bhardwaj a former teacher for the educational support for the mountain students, families and farmers. Providing books, uniforms and building playgrounds (3 built), Cowshed (1built), toilets (3 built) as well as providing computers (3 computer centers built) for village schools. We have started Food funding for poor families (16 families in 2015-2017) and scholarships for education and for further training courses for poor students to support mountain communities in the villages. Now our next step is to provide Water filtering program for schools in the Himalayas, we support villages with irrigation systems and drinking water systems, our focus is now more on water purification and has provided water filers since 2015 to schools and we have put at least 7 water filters in schools until 2017. But they were a bit cheaper and not self-managed very well.
So now we are giving much more serious and long-lasting water filter and coolers to schools cost around Rs 43000 each and schools can manage these ones really well. We provided 1 in Shakra School 2018 and the second one in Kao School in Karsog - 2019. Clean water will change lives for better health and remove any future health issues for these children. We feel this is one of the best projects we have a taken forward and we are now asking schools to plant trees in return to preserve nature and fresh air with green forests.
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