Greening Jal Vayu towers

The tree planting activity at Jal Vayu Towers, NGEF Layout, Bangalore finally happened with a lot of joy, excitement, happiness and nearly 3 weeks of preparation by the Project Green Hands volunteers and the Jal Vayu association.

The Event took off with Rear Admiral Sampath (Retd), the President of the Jal Vayu Towers association, welcoming the gathering and introduced about the day’s activity to the residents. Then, Mr. Raghunath Iyer, PGH Volunteer, introduced Isha Foundation and Project Green Hands. He touched upon the environmental degradation that is being caused and sensitized the impact to our lives. He stressed upon the importance of trees and explained how trees act as the very basis of life and planting more of them “IS” the solution to reverse this environmental degradation.



Rear Admiral Sampath (Retd), the President of the association & Air Commodore KB Menon (Retd), the Member-Greening of the association inaugurated the activity by planting the 1st 2 saplings and the rest of the association members and the enthusiastic residents followed. Everyone was eagerly participating and learnt the art of dirtying their hands for a greener cause. During the whole 1 hour activity, there was a sense of satisfaction, contribution and fun with both the children and the elders alike.


More than 120 residents and volunteers from PGH participated in the event.