Raise a guardian. Grow a forest.
One Adivasi child. Twenty native trees. Three years. Two lives growing together in the forests of Jharkhand.
- Adivasi child as guardian
- 1
- native trees in each grove
- 20
- years of care and training
- 3
- of saplings geo-tagged
- 100%
Why the forest needs guardians
Planting is a day. Growing a forest takes years.
Jharkhand means the land of forests. Yet two centuries of felling have left close to 90% of its forest land badly degraded. Saplings are planted every year, and many never grow up.
A young tree doesn’t survive a dry summer, grazing cattle or a forest fire on hope alone. It survives because someone stays with it. So every grove in this campaign has a young guardian from that very village.
A guardian’s three years
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Year 1 · Plant
A Bal Akhra camp, twenty native saplings planted with tree guards and geo-tagged, and daily care begins.
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Year 2 · Protect
A second camp, watering through the hot months, and any sapling that fails is replanted.
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Year 3 · Steward
A third camp, a grove that can stand on its own, and graduation at Sarhul, the festival of the sal tree.
What your gift makes possible
Every ₹1,000 plants one native tree and helps a young guardian care for it for three years.
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₹1,000
One tree, planted and protected for three years
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₹5,000
Five trees
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₹20,000
A full grove of twenty trees, and one child’s journey to Sarhul
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₹1,00,000
A hundred trees and five Guardians of the Green
Where a guardian’s support goes, each year
₹6,720 a year · ₹560 a month · ₹20,160 over three years
- Grove upkeep by the child’s Bal Akhra
- ₹2,400
- Three-day residential Bal Akhra training
- ₹1,683
- Saplings and tree guards
- ₹883
- Geo-tagged updates, audit and admin
- ₹665
- Travel to the Bal Akhra
- ₹525
- Replanting saplings that fail
- ₹360
- Learning centre
- ₹204
Source: ICFG cost breakup per guardian.
Stand behind a guardian
Choose an amount. 100% reaches ICFG. Donations are non-refundable.
Not just any trees
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Sal
Its blossoms open Sarhul, the Adivasi new year.
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Mahua
Flowers that feed families, seeds that give oil.
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Jamun
Purple fruit shared by birds, bats and children alike.
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Amla
The forest’s medicine cabinet.
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Kusum
Host to the lac insect, a quiet source of village income.
Rooted in Jharkhand since 2006
Who we give to
The Institute of Community Forest Governance (ICFG) is a Ranchi trust formed in 2006 out of the Jharkhand Jangal Bachao Andolan. It works with Gram Sabhas, women’s cooperatives, organic farmers and the Bal Akhra, its youth assembly, so that forest communities can protect, regenerate and govern their own forests.
“Drink the milk of Mother Earth, don’t suck her blood.”
Samar Bosu Mullick, founder, ICFG
- districts of Jharkhand
- 13
- villages
- 1,100+
- village organisations
- 2,000+
- young people trained in Bal Akhras
- 18,000+
In the field · 5 June 2026
150 saplings for World Environment Day
At ICFG’s learning centre in Budmu, Bal Akhra children, villagers and the Jharkhand Jangal Bachao Andolan planted 150 saplings of many species and pledged to protect the forest. As reported in Johar Jharkhand: “If the forest survives, the Adivasi survives.”
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Our promise
Every rupee given at checkout is kept apart from sales and sent in full to ICFG by the 10th of the following month. We absorb the payment fees and share the total remitted every quarter.
A registered, accountable trust
- Trust registration 1084/128/2008, Indian Trusts Act, Ranchi
- 12AB registered
- 80G registered
- CSR-1: CSR00031933
- FCRA registered
- NGO Darpan: JH/2019/0229976
Questions
Who are the guardians?
Adivasi children aged 14 to 17 from Santhal, Munda, Oraon and Ho families in the planting villages, members of their village Bal Akhra.
How do we know the trees survive?
Every sapling is geo-tagged and its record updated each year by ICFG’s field team. Any sapling that fails is replanted within the three years.
When does my gift reach ICFG?
By the 10th of the month after you give, by bank transfer to ICFG’s trust account.
Will I get an 80G receipt?
ICFG holds a valid 80G registration, and donations to it are eligible for a 50% deduction under Section 80G (old tax regime). Receipts are issued by ICFG to donors who give through ICFG’s own donation page with their PAN. Gifts at EnZa checkout reach ICFG as one monthly sum, so they don’t come with an individual receipt.
Can I get a refund?
Donations are non-refundable. If something went wrong, write to us within 7 days and we’ll make it right.