Thuvakkam, being a budding and blooming organization, had a great year of learnings with practical exposure to new areas of venture. With many partnerships and collaborations, we had our learnings grow this year. We are grateful to enter the year 2023 with all of our volunteers, partners and employees, as they all had been the reason behind witnessing a successful year. We all have together accomplished creating about 2,01,800 sq. ft. green cover with planting 47,300+ native species. About 6,400+ volunteers were involved for 14,200+ volunteering hours. We are glad to have created a platform for our change-makers to be able to serve.

There had been new partners’ collaborations, new volunteers joining hands with us in the change journey, new members joining the team, a shift to new office space, with a lot of new forests created, many students taught and hungry humans fed, all of these would not have been made possible without your contribution towards goodness and serving.

Let us gear up for the new year 2023 and try to do the maximum of what we can for the welfare of our society.

Creation of first ever large scale community urban forest at Kundrathur

Thuvakkam has helped greening Kundrathur, by creating the first ever large scale community for 1.5 Acres, the plantation for seeding the huge forest was held with 80+ volunteers on 17, December 2022. 

HCL Foundation, giving much significance to greenery initiatives, under its HCL Harit program, collaborated with us in creating the first ever large scale community urban forest at Kundrathur. The CSR initiative has focused on planting 14,000 native species plants, suitable for our soil. The Administrative partner, Kundrathur Municipality, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, has also been a sheer support in the collaboration.

The plantation event was graced by Mr. Dhamodharan, Commissioner, Kundrathur Municipality, Mr. Sathya Moorthy, Chairman, Kundrathur Municipality, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, Mr. Neethi Rajan, The President, Metro Grand City Residential Welfare (MGCRWA) Association members, HCL Foundation team and Thuvakkam team. The event witnessed more than 80 volunteers, with HCL volunteers, scouts and guides students and MGCRWA members. The volunteers, from kids to adults, enjoyed the plantation activity and planted more than 1000 saplings. The 2 hours event was a blend of knowledge sharing sessions with practically understanding the trees to delightfully involve in the planting activity. 

The urban forest created at Patel park, Kundrathur had sustainable planning, which includes using the method of creating urban forest, which will also include sustainable infrastructure to have much community engagement. As ponds are crucial for the betterment of biodiversity, a pond has been created inside the forest. Besides the 14,000 native plants the forest will also have an herbal garden set, with pathways and direction boards guiding to every part of the forest. Of the many forests created by Thuvakkam NGO in partnership with HCL Foundation and Kundrathur Municipality, Govt. of India, this one stands significant as many sustainable features have been included for enabling the public to better engage with the environment.

Stay tuned and join us in various activities planned in the forest.