2011 marks an inspiring milestone for Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, the Jane Goodall Institute’s global environmental and humanitarian youth program. Twenty years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall and a group of Tanzanian students started what has become a global movement of young people dedicated to creating a better world. Today in more than 120 countries, hundreds of thousands of Roots & Shoots members work together on youth-led service projects to improve communities and to make the world better for people, animals and the environment.
Created by rootsandshoots on Feb 11, 2011
Last updated: 03/16/11 at 10:49 AM
This evening I attended a Dr. Jane speaking event in Walnut Creek. Along with two other interns in the Berkeley office, I flew a peace dove on stage next to Dr. Goodall. Afterward, we were able to have her sign our books and posters and pose for some photographs with her. Listening to Dr. Goodall tell her story about her first trip to Africa with her mother was pretty powerful, and then being able to meet her later than night was surreal. Definitely an exciting night!
Roots & Shoots celebrated its 20th Anniversary today with an event at the Oakland Zoo. Kiva, Marina, Megan, Molly, and Pier from the Berkeley Office had a ton of fun meeting several Roots & Shoots groups from the bay area that attended. The Oakland Zoo's Teen Wild Guides helped out with all the activities, and led the groups on a tour of the zoo, where we saw gibbons and baboons.
Kai Neander co-founder of the Sequoia Park Zoo Roots & Shoots Youth Leadership Program was the closing Key Note Speaker at the 8th Annual North Coast Youth Summit. The summit provided workshops, presentations and lectures to 300 youth from all over northern California. The event was a put on by organizations including, 4-H, Project Serve, Friday Night Live, and Roots & Shoots
ysummit.org
Today was my first day as the new Communications Intern with Roots & Shoots California in the Berkeley office. I met my coworkers and I think they are pretty awesome!
Annual Youth Leadership Summit at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, CA.
Early in November of 2010 I stepped into the Berkeley office and interviewed for the membership outreach and support internship. On November 17th I had my first day in the office, where I nervously began my first outreach phone calls. One call after the next, I slowly became more confident in myself and my ability to represent an organization as great as Roots & Shoots, and the Jane Goodall Institute. Without even five months passing by here at the Berkeley office, I got the privilege of hearing Dr. Jane Goodall lecture not only once, but twice, during her lectures here in California. I was also humbled to meet Dr. Goodall during her book signing. The experience here has been unforgettable!
I met Jane at the Orchard Garden Hotel in San Francisco. Kids for Peace was honoring Jane.
I started at the Berkeley Office as the California Youth Leadership Intern.
Roots & Shoots Members from around the Four Corners Region gathered in Watrous New Mexico for three days of networking, youth leadership trainings, and workshops.
Roots & Shoots Groups along with Hundreds of individuals from around the world met in Doha, Qatar for the Educare Global Issues Conference. Kai Neander a Roots & Shoots Youth Ambassador was the closing keynote speaker.
http://picasaweb.google.com/101776304768480568050/EducareGlobalIssuesConferenceDohaQatar2010?feat=directlink
Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots, California region and the International Child Resource Institute had a joint fundraiser, at which Dr. Jane gave her Reason for Hope lecture. After the show, Molly, an intern at the time, got to meet Jane for the first time!
Roots & Shoots Members from around the Four Corners Region gathered in Watrous New Mexico for three days of networking, youth leadership trainings, and workshops.
Molly's first day at the Roots & Shoots office in Berkeley!
I was at the United Nations Student Celebration of the Day of Peace! It was awesome and inspirational!!!
In 2008, I was lucky enough to attend the Roots & Shoots Youth Leadership Immersion Experience in Tanzania. I met fellow Roots & Shoots members from Tanzania and got to see the incredible projects they are doing. Together, we had a tree planting at one of the sanctuaries the Rebirth The Earth Campaign helped create. It was an amazing moment truly seeing the impact all of our work had. It also helped me to see our global interconnectedness in a whole new, firsthand way. I also had the chance to visit Gombe, where Dr. Jane studied, and see chimpanzees in their natural habitat! While we were walking on the beach we saw some of the chimpanzees from Dr. Jane's books, including Gaia and Golden. Camping on the beach and seeing the sunset on Gombe, we were all able to reflect on our incredible and lifechanging journey. It was truly one of the greatest experiences of my life and I'm forever grateful to Roots & Shoots for giving me the opportunity!
Youth Leaders gathered from around the nation for three days of networking, workshops and leadership experiences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFEg9XWhrYk
Youth Leaders from the New England Youth Leadership Council got together to plant trees at the Fells Tree Sanctuary in Medford, MA for the ReBirth The Earth Campaign. It was a great day--and the first time I'd ever had a chance to plant a tree! I learned a lot about how to plant a tree properly that day. It felt good knowing that we were part of something going on across the country and around the world.
The Sequoia Park Zoo Roots & Shoots Chapter was founded by 5 youth in Eureka California, after being asked by Dr. Jane to create a group at the zoo.
http://www.sequoiaparkzoo.net/
Kai Neander met Dr. Jane at a reception at the Sequoia Park Zoo after she spent time with Bill the Chimpanzee, then one of the oldest chimps in captivity. It was at that meeting that she introduced him to Roots & Shoots.
I volunteered at the Roots & Shoots Fair and for Cr. Jane's lecture and book signing when she received the 2007 Roger Tory Peterson Medal presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) and delivered the Peterson Memorial Lecture. Cool! You can watch a video of it online.
http://athome.harvard.edu/janegoodall/
In 2007, I joined the New England Youth Leadership Council. As a member of the council, I helped work on our national campaign (ReBirth The Earth at the time) and learned leadership and presentation skills, not to mention made friends that will last a lifetime. I stayed on the council until 2010 and had the chance to train other leaders as I had been trained. It was perhaps one of the most rewarding aspects of the entire experience
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a group of kids from the King Open School in Cambridge, MA meet to form a Roots & Shoots group. They call themselves The Sprouts of Hope—with the motto "Have a Dream, Make a Difference."
http://sproutsofhopekids.blogspot.com
I was so fortunate to be hired as a Roots & Shoots intern! I spent my internship working on our Regional Summit and designing two newsletters for our members. And now I get to work her full time and manage our office's internship program!
http://www.rootsandshoots.org/regional_offices/new_england/about_us
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