Hariyari
Our environment program, rooted in the same principle as everything else: children leading work in their own villages, for the mountains that raised them.
The mountains are not a backdrop
Tillu sits in rural Himachal, near Dharamshala. The children we work with grow up with the hills in every direction: forest paths, village dogs, monsoon water, and the slow pressure of waste, fear, and neglect that arrives when a place is treated as scenery for someone else's holiday.
Hariyari is how the circle turns toward that land. It is not a separate NGO bolted onto education. It is the same students, in the same villages, practising the same motto: we will learn, and we will teach — including how to live with the place that holds us.
Led by the village, not visiting experts
Hariyari sessions are designed so Student Leaders can carry them. A teenager explaining coexistence, cleanliness, or care for animals to her own neighbours carries an authority no workshop from outside can borrow. We would rather a small, repeated practice in the village than a one-day plantation photograph.
The work sits alongside Samta Saathi, not instead of it. Children who stay in school and stay in the village are the ones who will still be here when a campaign has left.
Awareness, care, and showing up
Village conversations
Student-led dialogues in the hamlets we already serve. Visual prompts, simple questions, and space for people to talk about the animals, waste, and water they live with every day.
Learning in the hills
Rewards Day already takes the circle into the mountains. Hariyari treats those landscapes as something to understand and protect, not only as a treat for consistency in class.
Partnerships on the ground
When local groups invite us into village awareness work — including compassion toward animals and coexistence — Samta Saathis take that learning back to their own lanes and homes.
Padhenge aur Padhaenge, outdoors too
Hariyari is still young as a named program. We would rather say that plainly than invent a list of hectares planted. What we can stand behind is the method: rural children as the people who teach their villages, and an organisation that does not forget where it is standing.
If you want to support this strand, you support the circle that makes it possible — Student Leaders with time, transport into the hills, and the everyday cost of keeping children in learning long enough to lead.
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Help Hariyari stay on the ground
Environment work here is done by the same children who lead as Samta Saathis. Funding and volunteering keep both running in the villages near Dharamshala.