Fundraising

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WE ARE RAISING FUNDS FOR

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Biodiversity Resource Centre

We are setting up the first-ever Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Biodiversity Resource Centre: A space co-created with the Warli Adivasi community. It will support nature education, promote organic produce, tribal upliftment, and power rewilding efforts in Aarey. And we need your help to make this dream real.

Our current space is no longer enough. To keep growing, we urgently need to rent a larger, more suitable place within the same tribal zone.

We’re seeking 110 kind supporters to cover our basic running costs of ₹24,000/month.

(Office rent = Rs 14K/ month, Community mobiliser = Rs 10K/ month)

Monthly contribution for sustained impact

Just click on the monthly amount of your choice, and you’ll be directed to a choice to get auto-subscribed for a year via UPI, card or Net banking. You can opt out any time in the future or change the amount later!

Auto-subscription tech via Razorpay makes it secure, easy and affordable for anyone to donate a small amount regularly feeling the pinch, while helping us plan projects better.

One Time Donation

A generous contribution from many supporters together will enable us to remain bold, innovative and independent, and also hire tribal talent. Together, we can do this! Hugs and thanks in advance.

Donations received till now

Frequently Asked Questions

Since our expenses are regular, a small but steady monthly donation helps us manage the organisation and plan ahead much better than a one-time donation, so our first preference is for a monthly donation, however large or small it may be. We strongly request you to do a monthly donation, but if would like to do a one-time donation instead, we have that option as well, and will welcome that too with love and gratitude

Your contributions will be used for meeting costs related to our current projects. It would go towards tribal salaries and payments, materials and recurring costs related to tree plantation and sapling maintenance, tribal livelihood generation, agroforestry, team travel costs, wild food plant conservation.

Yes we are a (section 8) non-profit registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt of India. As per law we aren’t allowed to distribute profit as dividend, but we can use funds for running costs including salaries/wages, etc which we Currently ONLY pay to adivasis from forest dwelling communities.

What we do is not just tree plantations – it is an urban-tribal partnership where we generate income and nutrition for Adivasi women by planting climate-resilient livelihood trees that quickly produce fruits that support the lives of communities that protect the forest, and that too in the world’s last surviving forest inside a megacity that protects Mumbai, India’s financial from heatwaves and floods. In addition, we don’t just plant; we also do follow ups, maintain saplings after plantation, use the plantation events to initiate urban stakeholders into climate action and focus on reviving disappearing native wild food trees.

All donors will receive regular monthly email updates about the ongoing work, in addition to the normal updates on social media. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

All Indian contributions made to us are eligible for tax exemption of 50% u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961. To enable this, we need your PAN number, adhaar and full address.

Please EMAIL US HERE and we will get back to you

Sure, our current projects are in Aarey Forest, Mumbai and Karjat, but we are beginning work in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh India very soon. For the moment, we need help in Mumbai with fund raising; social media influencers to share and amplify our content, campaigns and crowd funders; presentable quality photography and videography, social media text, video editing and creating social media materials, managing finance and accounts, volunteers for sapling care visits in Aarey; subject experts and experiential educators for hosting and facilitating workshops, field trips, tree plantations and nature walks.