Embracing the World - Member of Billion Trees Campaign

A member organization of the United Nations Billion Tree Campaign, Embracing the World has organized the planting of more than a million trees globally since 2001. After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, we helped stabilized 13 kilometers of India’s coast by planting 30,000 saplings along the shoreline. Individual volunteers pledge to care for the saplings they have planted for the first year of its life, helping to ensure that the tree will survive and prosper.

Inspired by Amma’s message to save the planet, Embracing the World Italian volunteers took to planting 600 trees in a town near Milan in Northern Italy.

In one of her talks, Amma said “There is an inseparable bond between man and nature. For man, there cannot be an existence removed from nature. However, because of his thoughtless actions, the equilibrium in nature is getting disturbed; the pulse of human life is becoming erratic, too. ..We cannot delay anymore. We must make the right decisions and embark on the right course of actions.”

Taking Amma’s message to the heart, the volunteers too to action. Caring not for rain or snow on a rainy day, volunteers put into action an InDeed initiative of planting more than 600 trees in Buccinasco, a town near Milan.