EcoSikh has formed a network of young volunteers all across Punjab who will be engaged with grassroots to do plantation in different parts of the state and other parts of India. EcoSikh will also invite members of the Punjabi diaspora to sponsor or facilitate plantations in Punjabi villages during this celebrations of Guru Nanak’s Gurpurab. There are over 125000 villages in the state. The EcoSikh team in Washington has already helped in planting 475 trees in the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore in USA. In the last monsoon season, EcoSikh was able to coordinate the plantation of over 3,000 trees in various parts of Punjab, not including 2,800 trees planted in Amritsar alone in the last 5 years.
EcoSikh plans to launch a special website for people to register all over the world for this task and it would encourage Sikhs to work with their respective governments and local administrations to work out a plan. EcoSikh will also collaborate with other international environmental organizations and the United Nations on this initiative.
