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Jane Reflects on 25 Years of Empowering Youth

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Today marks a big day in history for me, the Jane Goodall Institute and Roots & Shoots as we celebrate the 25th anniversary since the founding of Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots programme. What started with 12 Tanzanian students in 1991, has grown into a global humanitarian youth programme, canvassing 130+ countries with hundreds of thousands of young people involved. The basic idea of Roots & Shoots from the beginning was that each of us makes a difference every single day. Young people are the key, and through Roots & Shoots they take action on issues in their community, choosing projects they care about. Today, groups across the globe engage in projects that help people, animals and the environment, with the all-encompassing mission of learning to live in peace and harmony with each other, and with the natural world.

As I reflect on this incredible day from Gombe, I want everyone reading this to know that YOU do make a difference every day you are on this planet, and only YOU can choose what type of difference you are going to make.

You can get involved in the global celebration of #RootsandShoots25 on social media and learn more about the campaign at www.rootsandshoots.org/25years.

About Author

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) and UN Messenger of Peace, is a world-renowned ethologist and conservationist, inspiring greater understanding, and action on behalf of the natural world. On 14th July 1960 Jane arrived on the shores of Gombe in Tanzania to begin what became groundbreaking studies into the lives of wild chimpanzee communities. The discoveries that chimpanzees make and use tools forever changed our understanding of our relationship to the rest of the animal kingdom. This transformative research continues today as the longest running wild chimpanzee study in the world. Jane’s work builds on scientific innovations, growing a lifetime of advocacy including trailblazing efforts through her international organization of 25 Jane Goodall Institutes which advance community-led conservation, animal welfare ongoing research and care for captive chimpanzees. In 1991 Jane founded Roots & Shoots, an environmental and humanitarian program with 12 high school students in Dar es Salaam. Now Jane Goodall’s Roots |& Shoots empowers young people of all ages to become involved in hands-on projects of their choosing and is active in 75 countries and counting. Today, Jane travels approximately 300 days each year, inspiring audiences worldwide through speaking tours, media engagements, written publications, and a wide array of film, television and podcast projects. Author of many books for adults and children, her latest publication “The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times,” has been translated into more than 20 languages.

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