Let’s Go! Let’s Grow!
Imagine a forest growing outside of your window. There are ripe fruits hanging from the limbs of trees, colorful exotic flowers, children are laughing. There is an abundance of wildlife and pollinating insects. The ground is moist from rain, the air is crisp and the scent is fresh and sweet, AND (!) it is all because of you! It is because you dedicated your time, your energy and your passion to changing the views outside of the global windows where there was once - nothing.
From four continents, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, 18 forests will be restored through the “World School Championship”, a cross-cultural challenge created by a passionate group of school youth promoting positive change in response to the alarming rate in which forests have been cleared. Schools all around the world, including yours, will be encouraged to participate in this championship through fundraising efforts that will rebuild lost forests and preserve existing ones. Restoration is vital in educating and empowering a worldwide community of gardeners to become guardians of their forests and wildlife once again. The project, with the help of local volunteers, will fund equipment, seeds, training and planting of organic tree and plant nurseries in their villages. Over a million seedlings per year will be planted providing fruits for improved nutrition for children, soil erosion prevention, a slowing of climate change and the preservation of biodiversity among plants and animals. Children will learn educational skills that can be applied to grow their own fruits and vegetables. In turn, that broken bridge of dreams called ‘poverty’ can be eliminated.
You will have more than a glimpse into this reforestation project in over 18 countries because you will be encouraged and inspired to be an active participant in other cultures, engaging with someone just like you, your ‘twin’ young environmentalist, together, planting and nurturing to make this world healthy and peaceful for you and for your future generations. You will have the opportunity to share your experiences on a website, establishing an ecological education network.
Growth is infinite. Planting a tree is just the beginning. As the worlds’ trees grow, your connection with the environment will grow, friendships from the far reaches of the globe grow and in turn, your life will grow into a lush forest of nutrients, harmony, learning, understanding and healing. That’s the new ecological network made possible by your efforts. At the end of 2015, a World Championship Award will be given to a participating classroom – why can’t that be yours?
So, let’s grow.
WHO WE ARE AND WHY WE NEED YOU
In a response to the alarming rate of global deforestation, a passionate group of determined students have proposed the development of a worldwide initiative, “The World School Championship, (WSC), 2015”. The WSC will work to counteract the devastation and affects of this loss by challenging schools worldwide to fundraise for 18 reforestation projects in four continents. All class participants will receive a diploma for their involvement and a World Championship Award will be given at the end of 2015.
PROJECT GOALS
This project aims not only to benefit the land and inhabitants in countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Ecuador, Madagascar, Philippines and Morocco from the destruction of forest habitats for firewood, building materials and agriculture, but also for a global engagement of youth. Student partnering, also known as the ‘twining of classrooms and students’ with other cultures, encourages ecological balance and cultural unity in habitat restoration. This will empower and educate a new generation of proud guardians of their forests and wildlife on a local and global level.
Fundraising efforts will reach far and wide, providing equipment, seeds, training and monitoring to set up seed and plant nurseries in many villages. Together, they will produce over a million seedlings a year with the help of local volunteers. Organic tree nurseries and forestry centers near degraded areas will support existing nurseries and provide training for local communities.
WHY OUR STUDENTS NEED THIS
On an environmental governance platform, the replanting of trees provides fruits for the nutrition of children, helps to protect existing trees, provides active and applied learning in sustainable agricultural practices, slows local and global climate change, preserves biodiversity of plants and animals and works toward eliminating poverty and malnutrition.
Students will benefit by their understanding of working together toward a healthier and more peaceful world. They will have access to a website to follow goals and achievements of this initiative, how their work and dedication facilitates environmental change, and encourages their communication with other cultures to build an ecological education network. Students will create contacts from one country to another, growing not only trees, but also lifelong bonds with a commitment to the environment. In the long term, this shapes a more peaceful and nurturing planet.
WHY WE NEED YOUR INVOLVEMENT – TEACHERS
This project will provide you with the opportunity to enlighten your students about the world around them with a very real, ongoing global problem. Your students will be unified in a goal that benefits more than their immediate scope of the world. It will enable them, as a group, to take a grand step in correcting our ecological balance and to examine the problems closely and analytically by communicating with other cultures. This is an empowering and ongoing task encouraging exchanges of ideas, important decision making, creative plans for fundraising and more discussions on how the actions of each and every individual affects our planet. They will learn gratitude from giving, inspiration from looking within, and compassion for the misfortunes of others with limited means and resources.
WHY WE NEED YOUR INVOLVEMENT – SPONSORS
All sponsors will have access to the growth of the WSC initiative and have the opportunity to follow, over many years, the ongoing emergence of a young global community. You will see, firsthand, how hard work, passion and commitment, when shared, can make a significant impact. This can inspire other opportunities for student involvement on ecological matters on a local or global scale. You may also have the opportunity to speak with the classroom that is give the 2015 Award for insights on their creative fundraising and collaborations needed for the success of the project.
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