Waral Prakalp

Waral Prakalp is a reforestation initiative led by a group of Warli Adivasi artists and farmers from Ganjad village, Maharashtra. Composed around building a community space in the village, the initiative reclaims the role of ancestral artforms in protecting ecosystems, by breathing life into the very essence of the forest. In recent years, the community has identified a critical need for restoring the intimate relationship that binds it to their threatened natural surroundings. Spore facilitates the initiative’s development of cultural tools and methods of reforestation with participatory community efforts, with the aim of restoring traditional support systems in selected pilot clusters of Warli territories in Ganjad.