All children deserve a quality education. Together, we can help them reach their dreams.
Learn more about Teach for Life, the educational branch of Trees for Life.
Ripples of Empowerment
I am always amazed to see how empowered people inspire others. It seems that such people emanate something mysterious. That unseen element seeks out and connects with a few among the multitudes, people who carry within them the seeds of empowerment. It is like a candle seeking other candles and quietly lighting them. Read more
Growth of a Movement
Had I not witnessed the planting of the tiny seed that grew into a mighty tree, I would not have believed what happened. Yet all of us who witnessed it are awed by what took place. Read more
Seeds of Transformation
Lives blossom: A lush, vibrant
community has sprouted
where, just 20 years ago, the
land was barren and people
saw only darkness for their children’s future. Read more
Dancing with a Dusty Angel
Manaswi Sahu tells how his village was transformed when people started Trees for Life work. "My village represented the very soul of poverty and backwardness. Then one day a stranger came to our village, and everything started to change." Read more
Journey of HopeA former volunteer returnsto the school where he served in Allahabad, India ten years before. "In their eyes I found an answer to a dilemma I had struggled with for a long time." Read more |
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A Tender HeartOne woman's concern for childrenwho couldn't go to school led to the founding of five new schools that have served more than a thousand children. Read more |
Daring to Dream
People at a school in Allahabad, India dreamed of a medical lab to help improve the health of children and their families. Then they experienced miracles. Read more
Madantusi
A volunteer visits a village in India where all the trees planted had died, and discovers people making great efforts and sacrifices to provide education and improve their lives. Read more
A Small Miracle
When lepers in Orissa, India were given an opportunity to do work and support themselves, their chances of success seemed slim. Father John Maliekal describes "a small miracle." Read more
Visit to Orissa with Balbir Mathur of Trees for Life
Rodney Portman of London, UK tells of his experience in India: "Serving those at the very bottom of the pile, largely disenfranchised and untouched by the benefits of social services or development aid. ... This is what Trees for Life is all about." Read more
Journey of the Heart
In January 1998, fifteen people from the First United Methodist Church in Wichita, Kansas traveled to India. They went to Allahabad and New Delhi, where they visited and worked at several Trees for Life projects. Read more
One Miraculous Night
Villagers in Orissa, India make a sacrificial donation of land to help their school produce its own income. And news travels quickly. Read more
Fruits of Love
See how more than 40,000 villagers in India joined hands to save lives and improve the health of people with vitamin A deficiency. Read more
Dancing with Angels
Lepers in Orissa, India are given a chance to support themselves rather than begging, and people around the world join hands to help make it possible. Read more
A King of Love
Volunteer Premraj Sahu of Orissa, India rode his bicycle every morning to neighboring villages—some 20 to 30 milesaway—to teach children how to plant and care for trees. Read more
An Uncommon Teacher
Chakradhar Pradhan, a farmer in Orissa, India, learned to grow lemon trees from Trees for Life—and then taught more than 100 others. Read more
