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Sh. Rajendrasinh Jadeja,
-Sarpanch
As March came our Water Sources like Well, Tube well, Ponds etc went dried up. So we had to face Drinking Water and Irrigation water crisis every year. But now it is past for us, as we have constructed 47 small and medium check dams by community contribution, Govt. Support with the help of Vruksha Prem Seva Trust.
Village: Mespar
Dist: Rajkot (Guj.)
Taluka: Gondal
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Origin/Genesis
Premjibhai was born in Upleta Taluka, Rajkot district. Although he belonged to a farming community, he took to trading as a profession and soon became a distributor for Reliance Textiles. Till 1975, he conducted his business in Upleta and later moved to Mumbai. But he never liked Mumbai. Frustrated by the lifestyle in Mumbai, he yearned to retire and do something that would make a difference to the world. He pondered over this for two years considering various options such as politics and social service. But he was repelled by each of them because of the 'filth' (moral decadency) in each.
Premji Bhai
Founder-VPST-Junagadh
He recalls how a character in a play written by Manubhai Pancholi, a well known educationist in Gujarat, kept coming back to his mind over and over again during this period. The character, Gopal Bapa, was an old man who generated employment for many young, unemployed people through horticulture, by growing trees such as 'amba', 'bor'etc. Drawing inspiration from this character, he decided to venture into tree planting. To begin with, he supported tree planting around temples in his own village. He selected the areas surrounding temples for doing so simply because people do not cut the trees around temples. He hired a person to organize this work and paid for all the expenses incurred. Once the temples in his village were covered, he moved on to plant trees around temples in two other villages. Then in 1984, he entrusted this work to a local voluntary organization, Gokul Goshodhan.
Later in 1987, his son, Shri Rayjibhai Patel, who is an industrialist in Ahmedabad, sent him an article from Suvichar (a local magazine) on Elzeard Bouffier's work (originally a story titled "The Man Who Planted Trees", written by famous French writer Jean Giono). Elzeard Bouffier is depicted as a shepherd who devoted his retired life to tree planting. He supposedly created a forest 10 km wide and 50 km long in 35 years. So moved was Premjibhai by the story that he decided to spend the rest of his life doing the same. He discussed his plans with his son, who supported him whole-heartedly.
Thought process towards rural development started in 1945 in the mind of Founder of VPST Premajibapa. He had initiated philanthropic work unorganized way in the year of 1945. Then in 1968 he had registered Vruksha Prem Seva Trust under society registration act.
Seva Trust -Upleta is a registered Non-Governmental Organisation working in filed of Rural Development in Saurashtra areas of Gujarat state. -
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