The village that plants 111 trees every time a girl is born :- Members of the Piplantri village, in the western state of Rajasthan, are celebrating the birth of each baby girl in way that benefits everyone. But planting trees is only one way that the community is ensuring a brighter future for their daughters. Villagers also pool together around Rs.21,000 for every new baby girl and deposited in an account for her. The parents of the new born baby also sign an affidavit promising that they would not marry her off before the legal age, send her to school regularly and take care of the trees planted in her name. Over the last six years alone, as population there has increased, villagers in Piplantri have planted nearly a quarter million trees — a welcoming forest for the community's youngest members, offering a bit of shade for their brighter future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=130&v=LF9ntz0Y3T0 www.keralites.net 
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