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Jane Goodall Institute-Shanghai (Roots & Shoots) |
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Roots & Shoots is a global environmental and humanitarian program for youth. Roots & Shoots emphasizes intercultural interaction and promotes care and concern for the environment, animals, and other people through community service projects and educational activities. Roots & Shoots members include preschool to university level youth in Shanghai. Dr. Goodall’s hope is to inspire students to make the world a better place for all living things.
Roots & Shoots is empowerment through environmental education. It offers a forum to bring young people together (within their school environment), providing the opportunity to explore and understand their connection to the environment, nature, and community, and to make a difference by taking action in their own unique way.
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Opportunities for involvement |
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- Opportunities for Financial Assistance |
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 | Newsletter publication and distribution |
| The quarterly Roots & Shoots newsletter is written, edited, designed and printed by R&S students. Environmentally newsworthy stories, articles, and facts are relayed. Drawings, poems and short stories showcase the students' creativity. Facts from around the world are reported, and project summaries are featured. The distribution is 2000 copies. Sustainable funding for this project is needed.
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| Website start up and maintenance. |
| Roots & Shoots is working with JGI-USA for technical and format support, and using local students to help us launch a bilingual Roots & Shoots website. This will give us access to an unlimited number of high school and university students in Shanghai, and give them access to the messages of Dr. Goodall.
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| Environmental materials distribution |
| Environmental videotape purchase and distribution to R&S school librariesis an on-going program in Shanghai. (These tapes are world class environmental topics which have been selected and translated into Chinese by Environmental Educational Television Project for China, a WWF and UN affiliate.)
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| Environmental Art calendar |
| The R&S students in Shanghai created posters with an environmental message. Some of the posters were chosen to make up a 2003 calendar. This calendar will include environmental messages from the students and from Dr. Goodall. It will be globally distributed. This is a yearly program.
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| 2003 R&S Youth Summit. |
| China has been selected as one of the 20 countries that may send a student delegate to this meeting. If we can secure the funding, we will proudly participate in this global environmental program, and tell the rest of the world of the dynamic progress we are making here in Shanghai.
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- Opportunities for In-Kind Assistance |
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| Speakers Program |
| This program invites business leaders to speak on environmental topics to our students. It will continue, exposing our students to environmentally best practices and Western business concepts. Speakers are needed to volunteer time to speak. The speeches are usually in the evening. The audience is high school and university R&S students. Round table discussions held after the speech allows speaker and students to communicate better and understand the challenges and benefits of environmentally sound business practices.
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| Training |
| We are developing our own project management training program for group leaders and student participants. Train-the-Trainer is run by university students, with assistance from the business community. The focus is project management and pragmatic environmental project completion.
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- Opportunities for Volunteering Time |
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| Partnerships in Understanding |
| Partnerships in Understanding is a correspondence program that pairs local R&S groups with othe R&S groups from around the world. By sharing information and ideas, young people have the opportunity to celebrate their own cultures and learn about those of others. Partner groups exchange letters, e-mails, photos, games, video and audio tapes, cultural artifacts and R&S project ideas. Through this program young people discuss issues and offer solutions in a forum that transcends cultural and geographical boundaries. |
| Minimum Time Commitment: 2.0 hours/week.
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| Small Partners Program |
| Each R&S group chooses a younger group to work with, doing projects, teaching concepts of environmental care and concern, showing compassion in action, and being leaders to the younger children. The benefits include: giving older R&S members an opportunity to teach what they have learned, solidifying knowledge, goals and connections; giving younger students positive role models, and showing them that young people can make a difference; and it spreads our concepts of care and compassion throughout the community, to younger audiences and new schools. |
| Minimum Time Commitment: 2.0 hours/week.
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Contact: |
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Name:
Tori Zwisler |
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Phone:
6352-3580 |
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Fax:
5306-0008 |
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E-mail:
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WebSite(English):
www.jgi-shanghai.org |
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WebSite(Chinese):
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Documents Submitted: |
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List of organization's staff and governing board |
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Register your charitable organization with AmCham
Please click HERE to register your charitable organization with AmCham. If you have any questions, please email CSR@amcham-shanghai.org for more information. |
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