The power of volunteers and a community
One family started restoring the barren land. A community kept it alive.
Twenty years ago, a family stood on 70 acres of dry, lifeless land outside Auroville, India.
They decided that wasn’t how the story would end.
In villages where children go to bed hungry and the land can’t hold water, Sadhana Forest has become a volunteer-run movement that works with communities restoring land and food security in India, Haiti, and Kenya.
Sadhana Forest plants indigenous, drought-resistant, food-bearing trees that bring back life to the soil and create long-term food security.
Everything here reflects care for life: solar-powered campuses, vegan meals, and a way of living that restores more than it takes.
Over 350,000 trees planted.
750,000 more have grown back on their own.
This model now thrives in four other parts of India and in Haiti, Kenya, and Namibia, where people face the same struggle to hold on to water, food, and hope.
On Restor, Sadhana Forest maps its impact and tracks ecosystem recovery, showing how people and data together can bring land back to life.
We’re proud to host their work and to show what’s possible when people give everything back to the planet.
Be part of this story.
Join as a volunteer and help grow hope from the ground up.
