THIS WEEK

ROOTS&SHOOTS - ARUSHA THIS WEEK

Roots & Shoots Children Environmental Educational Video Film Showing (At JR-Institute of Information Technology)

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As Dr. Jane Goodall, the Founder of Roots & Shoots believes that if young people are involved in decisions impacting the environments in their society, they can develop creative ways to raise awareness, share information, build capacities, and work together to help that society through their own initiatives. “The power of youth is global”. 

Through inspiring words, Roots & Shoots Office in Arusha organizes monthly children Environmental Education Video film shows for members from kindergarten and Primary Schools around Arusha. These events are conducted in collaboration with JR-Institute of Information Technology Arusha and are aimed to inspire long term promotion of environmental conservation movements by fostering change of societal perception change in such a way that environments can as well be part of their day to day’s priority agenda. The programme promotes innovative values by empowering the school children to contribute to the preservation and fit for degradation of their natural surroundings.

This week, Burka and Azimio Roots & Shoots Club members of 89 in total will attend a two hours session to watch “Mama Mazingira yangu, mazingira yetu film”. After the show they will form groups to go back to schools to carry out research by interviewing non-members how they value environments, and what their environmental perceptions are. The interviews will also involve teachers and parents home, so that next month the second session entails the presentations of their findings to the other clubs.

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Roots & Shoots Arusha –USA Partnerships in Understanding.

This week Roots & hoots Arusha is privileged to have received a friend of Roots & Shoots Arusha Madam Lori Robinson from USA. Madam Lori has brought to us a contact lists of Schools in America whose children and youth are interested, and do involved in environmental service learning works similar to our clubs here in Arusha.

In order to increase schools global connections and promote international understanding of and interactions between children of different age groups, ethnicity, education, colour and social economic backgrounds, five Primary and Secondary Schools have will be paired with the schools in America to involve over 200 children members.

Clubs involved in Arusha for this project includes Burka Primary, Azimio Primary, Joseph Primary, Naura Primary and St. Joseph Ngarenaro Girls Secondary Schools. Activities have included receive of individual letters from partner children of the similar age, and response to the letters, including drawings of different features of their own imaginations. Tanzania’s participants also have received totes from their friends in response to the campaign to fight against plastic pollution.

In the same period five environmentally conscious students from Kiranyi, Mringa, St. Joseph Ngarenaro and Elerai Secondary Schools, basing on their mutual interest, commitments and inspirations from Dr. Jane Goodall and to the environments, have been selected for special interview to generate information’s that shall be used to raise funds to support their education at high learning Institutes in Tanzania. 

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