Roots & Shoots starts on Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Roots & Shoots is an international organization for young people started by Dr. Jane Goodall in 1991. Currently there are more than 8,000 groups in nearly 100 countries around the world! The Littleton Middle School chapter of Roots & Shoots is in its fifth year, and we are going strong!

The mission of Roots & Shoots is to foster respect and compassion for all living things, to promote understanding of all cutures and beliefs and to inspire each individual to take action to make the world a better place for people, animals and the environment.

In Roots & Shoots, students work together with their adult leader (Ms. Finnerty) to choose, design and conduct projects to help people, animals and the environment. Past and current projects include organizing and running the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign at LMS, holding a winter clothing drive for Loaves and Fishes, creating guide brochures for the conservation land near Russell Street School, assisting the Free to Be club with their Daffodil Sale for the American Cancer Society, assisting the school nurse with the Pennies for Patients drive, making holiday treats for the birds, holding a Great American Bake Sale to fight childhood hunger, selling t-shirts to save rainforest in the Great Rift Valley, and designing and building a butterfly garden in front of LMS.

For more information about Roots & Shoots visit:

www.rootsandshoots.org