We work with schools and colleges across Bangladesh to bring the government land on their grounds under tree cover. On most campuses, ground along boundary walls, beside playing fields and around assembly areas stays bare season after season. We encourage teachers and students to plant it with trees suited to the site, and to care for them until they stand on their own.
The work begins with the head teacher or principal and the staff who know the campus. Together we mark where planting is possible without taking away play space, choose species that match the soil and the water available, and favour a mix of shade, fruit and native timber trees over one quick-growing variety. Students join the planting itself. We ask each institution to place saplings in the care of particular classes or clubs, so that watering, fencing and replacing losses remain someone's clear responsibility long after the planting day.
Trees on campus earn their place in a country under steady environmental pressure. They cut dust and the smoke that drifts from kilns and traffic, hold soil through heavy rain, shade classrooms and corridors during the hot months, and shelter birds that have lost older trees. A student who has watered a sapling through a dry season learns the value of planting better than a lesson alone can teach.
We welcome any school, college or madrasa in the country whose grounds hold such unused government land, along with managing committees, teachers, student clubs, scout and guide groups, and former students who want to plant where they once studied.