Our aim is to serve, preserve, strengthen and document precious and vanishing forms of art and culture in West Bengal. We do this through and with children, in villages and urban slum areas. We want to empower children in villages and slum areas within a space of joyful expression.

We want to strengthen the deep bond between children and nature, and to make children conscious of the beauty and vulnerability of Mother Earth. We all live in dark times of climate change and rising waters, especially near the Bay of Bengal.

Earth Care with Art wants to remember and honour the wisdom of adibasi people, baul, fakir and pat chitrokar, as well as the crafts of weavers and potters. These traditional ways of life and expression are quickly getting lost in a consumerist society.

We document the work and share it with you.

Our Places 

The core people devoted to this effort live at Tori-Maa, a city ashram, in Tollygunj, Kolkata, in weavers ́ villages in Nadia, and near Chhatna, in Bankura. Three of our friends in India have been committed to the above-mentioned aims since the very beginning, in 2009. What carries them is a deep devotion to children, folk art and nature. 

Tori-Maa is the name of our organisational center, as well as a small ashram. About seventy children come to Tori-Maa to participate in yoga and drawing classes each week. 

Suti Nagar is the name of our creative endeavour in Nadia, at present in three weavers ́ villages. More than one hundred and fifty children participate in yoga and drawing classes there. The children themselves prepare pigments from plants, flowers and seeds. 

Adi Nagar is the name of our jungle ashram, a place of meditation, respect for nature, fruit trees, some hens and a pond. Children come there for drawing classes with natural pigments on Sundays. 

A new place for painting will be established in Sunderban (which means beautiful forest)