A forest on a school ground

In November 2023, three hundred volunteers planted 1,200 saplings in a single morning on a dusty corner of a government school ground. The children named every species and wrote their names on the stakes.

Three years on the canopy has closed, the classroom next to it is four degrees cooler in April, and the Class 7 students run a bird count every month.

“We counted twenty-three kinds of birds. Before, there were only crows.”— Class 7, GHPS Yelahanka