Admittedly the indigenous tribals are the original children of the soil of India. Many of them are still living in the fastly disappearing forests in the States of West Bengal, Jharkhand and Orissa, where LAMP has been running various development programmes with them for about thirty five years. The main objective is not only their socio-economic-cultural development, but also preservation of their identity as forest people, who still claim that the forest, the forest-land and the forest streams and water resources, like fountains, belong to them as their inalienable birth-right. With the objective of helping them to grow freely and naturally in their own habitat, in their own environment and in their own traditional manner.