Help us plant 25,000 Neem trees in Delhi

Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world. With increasing development activities, a lot of trees have been chopped down to create new buildings, leading to further decrease in the tree cover in Delhi. The traffic in Delhi is also increasing day by day, leading to even more air pollution. Although a lot of different methods have been tried over the last 5-6 years to curb the air pollution in Delhi, the most effective solution to curb air pollution is to increase the tree cover of Delhi.

Till date, Give Me Trees has planted more than 74 lakh Neem trees across India in the last 44 years under its Neem Trees Campaign. Give Me Trees wants to plant 25,000 more Neem trees in Delhi. Although Give Me Trees plants more than 100+ tree species, Neem (scientific name : Azadirachta indica) is very effective in absorbing air pollutants and is an excellent tree species with tremendous medicinal and ecosystem benefits. All the funds we will receive will directly go into planting and maintaining Neem trees in Delhi.

Give Me Trees will plant and maintain the planted saplings for the next 3 years, after which, the trees become self sufficient. Maintenance activities include watering, mulching, manuring, fencing, labour costs and replacement of saplings if necessary. Give Me Trees will employ full time staff to constantly monitor the health of the saplings and take full care of them.

This will lead to an increase in the number of Neem trees in Delhi, leading to decrease in air pollution. Neem also has tremendous medicinal benefits and is considered very beneficial for the whole ecosystem as well.