About Us
Maivarai
Maivarai is an organization that enhances children to learn deeply about various aspects of education through their experiences in the natural environment, and to achieve environmental and social awareness. Maivarai has already reached thousands of children under the name of Kalari Forest School in the past years. Maivarai aims to spread education that promotes virtue and non-violent living.
For the past five years, we have been imparting various fields like ecological awareness, importance of forests, social vision, self-reliance living, life skills development, art to children, youth and general public through activities and dialogues. In these five years Maivarai is running well as a site that is loved by children and has gained the trust of the public.
Maivarai Eco-Village
Maivarai Eco-Village is a budding model ecological village that is being created with the consensus of 18 different families who have a great love for the natural environment and have great faith in the community living. The ecovillage is designed to meet all the needs of human life in a self-sufficient way. Meanwhile, Maivarai also focuses on promoting the concepts of sustainable living, environmental awareness, social well-being and non-violent education among the society.
The village is being developed in an area of 11 acres of pristine landscape near the scenic Thandikudi village in the Kodaikanal region of the Western Ghats. The village is developing facilities for education, conducting training programs, biodiversity conservation, research on arts, culture and traditional medicine and catering livelihood services to the nearby tribal communities.
Focusing on self-reliance and sustainable living, the village rises to logical collective living systems. Also, we provide various other systems and related trainings to the public with great expertise and experience, such as organic food production, non-exploitative technology, life education, science for people, non-violent living, etc..