“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; We borrow it from our children.”  

- Native American Proverb

We are offering a 11 month residential program
"Back to Basics: Explore Sustainable Living and Entrepreneurship"
for gap year students, homeschoolers, unschoolers, and adults aged 14-50 who aspire to make a change in their surroundings.

Puvidham translates from Tamil to love for the earth. This is the inspiration for all the people and activities associated with this place. Puvidham Rural Development Trust is a registered organization that works on providing a humane, sustainable and child-centered education environment for children in the Nagarkoodal area of Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, India. The educational environment is modeled around Mahatma Gandhiji's Nai Talim Curriculum with the spiritual principle which states that "knowledge and work are not separate"

The Puvidham Learning Centre, currenlty is a 80 strong family comprising of students and facilitators. Children are exposed to architecture, Organic Farming, Arts, Crafts, Green Product Manufacturing, Peer learning and most importantly empathize with nature, environment. As a team, puvidham is also involved in inlcusive growth of neighbouring villages in terms of education and knowledge transfer for forest creation, water conservation, Health and Hygene.