Environment

As a coastal village abutting a major city, Perumathura faces multiple challenges of climate change, coastal erosion, and biodiversity loss while simultaneously holding on to a rich ecological and cultural heritage. In this context, our work focuses on helping children engage deeply with their environment through nature-immersive tools and modules that make climate and ecological realities tangible while also celebrating the area’s unique biodiversity. By weaving together knowledge, history, and local ecology, we aim to foster awareness, care, and stakeholdership rooted in the lived realities of Perumathura.

Our Principles

Learning From The Ground

Weaving Culture

Empower For Action

Our Programs

Climate Change Curriculum

The project Climate Change Education – India, Ghana, and Finland, funded by the Global Innovation Network for Teaching and Learning (GINTL), explored how teachers perceive their role in advancing awareness of the climate crisis. It focused on building international collaboration in climate change education, with Finland’s experience serving as a reference point for India and Ghana. The initiative enabled exchange of practices, perspectives, and tools to integrate climate education into national curricula. By linking diverse contexts, it highlighted both common challenges and unique opportunities, strengthening teachers’ capacity to foster informed, climate-aware future generations across continents.

Sea Voices Workshop

As part of Climate Week 2025, Sea Voices was a storytelling workshop in Perumathura that brought together elders and youth to reflect on climate change through lived experience. Veteran fishermen shared traditional knowledge—navigation, fish migration, and weather wisdom—while young participants expressed their realities through writing, drawing, and dialogue. Themes of heat stress, livelihood insecurity, and changing relationships with the sea emerged powerfully. Art-making and a collective shoreline walk deepened this intergenerational exchange, revealing the cultural and ecological significance of the sea. The workshop emphasized that meaningful climate action requires honoring indigenous knowledge while equipping younger generations with resilience and voice.

The Coastal Walk Program: Transforming how children see, hear, and value their coast.

The Coastal Walk is a hands-on journey that moves children from passive awareness to active understanding of their local marine environment. In the face of pollution, erosion, and habitat loss, it’s vital for the next generation to connect with and protect the natural world at their doorstep.
Our Approach:

Learn: We teach coastal ecology and geology, equipping children with knowledge.
Connect: We share local stories and cultural heritage, rooting them in a sense of place.
Act: We highlight environmental challenges and solutions, empowering them with hope and agency.