We are excited and honored to announce our new Global Tree Initiative (GTI) partner; Devrai from India!

On August 6, our community in Australia celebrated National Tree Day! In celebration of this day, our Australian coordinators, Mark and Jill, helped to coordinate a tree-planting day at our partner, Atisha Buddhist Centre.

Mark tells us that they are applying for funding to create a “honey and native bee pollinator garden” around the Kadampa Stupa.

On August 12, we celebrate International Youth Day! This brings about an excellent opportunity to hear from our Regional coordinator in Zimbabwe, Jussa Kudherezera, who is also the founder of Manica Youth Assembly (MAYA).

Congratulations to Dr. Koncha Pinos, the director of The Wellbeing Planet, for winning the 2023 Outstanding Inner Peace Prize at the Luxembourg Peace Prize Awards!

We are honored to share a heart-felt message of appreciation from our partner in Zimbabwe, Manica Youth Assembly!

The main goal will be to reduce the carbon footprint of the WYD. If you choose to participate, you will be contributing to reforesting degraded land in Portugal.

We are happy to announce our official partnership with Aryatara Institute in Germany! Aryatara Institute has been collaborating with us since the early days of the Global Tree Initiative (GTI).

The Global Tree Initiative (GTI) partnership with QS World Merit was  celebrated on Friday, August 12, with an inspiring webinar launch of the Trees for Merit Global Tree Planting Challenge.

The idea of forming a partnership between the JMJ and the Global Tree Initiative was born while meeting with this inspiring group of people. Restoring degraded land by planting trees was already on the table for the organizing committee so it was a natural fit.