Philanthropic Champions
Aug 07, 2018
2 minutes
SOURCE © SHUTTERSTOCK
“I see God in nature. Nature is God. It gives me inspiration. It gives me power. As long as it survives, I survive.”
– Jadav Payeng
88 India
Jadav Payeng (b.1963)
Farmer
Over nearly 40 years, a farmer from a marginalised tribal community in Assam state in northeastern India single-handedly planted and tended trees on a sandbar on Brahmaputra river, turning it into a forest comprising several thousand trees and many animal species,
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