DEV Foundation
Field journal · Ahmedabad · est. 2011

Fourteen years of
showing up.

A family that planted a tree on every birthday. Fifty-three thousand trees later, a foundation that feeds, teaches, protects and plants — one ordinary day at a time.

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The ledger

What fourteen years actually adds up to.

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Trees planted & gifted
Across Ahmedabad since 2011 — including 3,000+ in a single monsoon week this July.
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Books donated
Biographies and autobiographies handed to government-school students.
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Children reached
300 trained in fire safety, 100 in art, heat-wave seminars, and 1,000 across five schools this July.
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Government schools visited
Over three days — 15, 17 and 18 July 2026.
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Animals fed this year
Twenty cows in June; three elephants and more cows at Shri Nakalang Mahadev in August.
Three months, three programs

Summer 2026, in order.

Scroll — each chapter stacks over the last. Tap the small photos to change the big one.

Chapter 01 · June 2026Gau Seva

Twenty cows, fresh grass.

No banner, no crowd. One morning in June we fed twenty cows with green grass. That was the whole plan, and the whole of it was carried out. Some of our best work is the quietest.

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Chapter 02 · 15, 17 & 18 July 2026Five Schools

A thousand good afternoons.

Across three days we visited five government schools and gave biscuits and cold drinks to around 1,000 students. A child who has met us on a good day listens differently when we come back to teach.

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Chapter 03 · 10 August 2026Shri Nakalang Mahadev

Elephants who cannot be hurried.

A thousand-year-old temple in Paldi-Kankaj, said to be built by Nakul of the Pandavas. We fed cows, we fed three elephants who took food from our hands like they had all the time in the world, and we spent the day in stillness.

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The wall

A thousand children.

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Field notes

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Devarsh Panchal at a plantation drive
"We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors — we borrow it from our children. DEV Foundation is how we pay that loan back."
Devarsh PanchalPresident, DEV Foundation

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