Who we are
Team & Roles
A small trust team running three programs, and a much larger corps of village guardians doing the on-the-ground work of the palm programme.
Trust leadership
Trustees
Names and specific roles, not just titles — see our note on this below.
Managing Trustee
[[Name]]
Overall responsibility for the trust's programs, finances, and legal compliance.
Trustee
[[Name]]
[[Add role — e.g. governance, fundraising, or a specific program's oversight.]]
Trustee
[[Name]]
[[Add role.]]
We list trustees by name, not just by title, because a donor is entitled to know who is actually accountable for their contribution. This list is a placeholder until it is filled with the trust's real, current trustees.
Program leadership
Who runs each program
The people responsible for residential care, hunger relief, and education & skills day to day.
Residential Care lead
[[Name]]
Day-to-day running of the home — residents, meals, health monitoring, and staff.
Hunger Relief lead
[[Name]]
Ration kit scheduling, cooked-meal delivery, and household prioritisation.
Education & Skills lead
[[Name]]
Fee disbursement, tutoring coordination, and vocational-training placements.
Finance & Compliance
[[Name]]
Books, statutory filings, audit coordination, and donor receipts.
On the ground
The Palm Guardian Corps
The 1 Million Palm Trees programme is carried out by village guardians, not by trust staff — a structure of local roles that grows with responsibility rather than a fixed org chart.
🌱
T1
Sapling Volunteer
Plant, photograph, report.
50 pts / event
🌴
T2
Palm Guardian
Adopt a grove, verify monthly.
₹500–2k / mo
🛡️
T3
Grove Captain
Lead a cluster of 10+ guardians.
₹6k / mo + bonus
🏅
T4
Regional Steward
Oversee district operations.
₹25k+ / mo
Full detail on how the corps works and how to apply lives on the Guardian Corps page.
Initiative
An initiative by Hope108 × Aaladipattiyaan
The 1 Million Palm Trees programme runs alongside Anbu Illam Trust's own care, food, and education work, in partnership with Hope108 Public Welfare Trust.
Hope108
Anbu Illam Trust works in partnership with Hope108 Public Welfare Trust (Anayajothi Charitable Trust), a separately registered public welfare trust based in Chennai whose work spans hunger relief, education, mental-health support, and community upliftment.
www.hope108.in →1mp.space
Anbu Illam Trust is a partner of 1mp.space — the 1 Million Palm Trees initiative, a campaign to plant and independently verify one million Palmyra trees across India, pairing reforestation with farmer livelihoods and a transparent, donor-visible ledger.
1mp.space →Each organisation named above is separately registered. Their work, their records, and their results are their own — see our partnership page for what we actually do together.