Vivekh addicted to planting saplings

Actor Vivekh, social activist and tree lover, has been planting saplings to reduce global warming for almost a decade. He has planted more than 40 lakh trees ever since he launched ‘Green Kalam Project’, a massive tree planting campaign to fulfil the wishes of former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

The Vellai Pookkal actor says that planting sapling has almost become an addiction to him as he shared a picture of a tree on his social media, from a sapling planted during 2016 and which has grown into a tree in 2 ½ years. His request to youth and women for the World Environmental Day (June 5) is going viral — “I planted a sapling at Ambal School in Annur in 2016. In 2 ½ years’ time, it has grown into a tree and I am sure by 2020, it would become a huge tree and give shade to people.”

For World Environmental Day, the actor is requesting youngsters to gear up for planting thousands of saplings all over TN. With a characteristic witty line he says, “Please include your sisters, mothers in the sapling event as I feel that those saplings which are planted by women will grow faster.”