Nurturing the Ebbs & Creeks of Sundarban.
At the very edge of the Kalindi and Raimangal rivers, Breathing Roots is growing a living Green Wall of mangroves while reviving folk traditions that once echoed across the entire Bengal delta.
Born from cyclone-hit villages in Lower Hingalganj, our work is rooted in a simple realisation: relief is not a solution. Resilience is.
Adopt a mangrove sapling and support three years of care — from seed to sapling to storm-ready tree. Your support builds the Green Wall and sustains local livelihoods.
Breathing Roots weaves together ecological restoration, cultural revival, and community resilience in one deltaic tapestry.
Women-led nurseries, indigenous seed collection and three years of post-plantation care turn fragile embankments into climate-resilient Green Walls.
From Mymensingh ballads and Palkir Gaan to Bhatiali and Bonbibi'r Palagaan, we support artists whose songs carry the memory of an undivided Bengal delta.
Skill training, health camps, and cultural solidarity programmes help families stay rooted in their villages instead of migrating away from the coast.
Breathing Roots is a grassroots, community-led initiative from Lower Hingalganj, the last inhabited block on the Indo–Bangladesh border. Our team is made up of folk musicians, farmers, fishers, youth and elders whose own homes stand on the frontline of climate change.
After cycles of relief work during cyclones like Sidr, Aila, Bulbul, Amphan, Yaas and Remal, we realised that recurring aid was not enough.
We decided to grow resilience — mangrove by mangrove, song by song.
Read our full journeyMangroves can absorb up to 4× more carbon than many other trees, and their roots hold embankments together, blunt tidal surges, and keep salinity at bay.
Once, mangrove forests stretched from Sundarbans to Nadia and Murshidabad. Today, we are working to rebuild this living shield, starting from our own riverbanks.
Songs, stories, and rituals like Bonbibi worship sustain courage in the face of storms. By supporting artists, we safeguard a way of seeing the world that keeps people anchored to their land and rivers — even in an age of forced migration.