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Dr. Jane Goodall Ph.D., DBE and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, returns to the University of Cambridge where she earned her PhD.

She will be giving a lecture entitled “Reasons for Hope” on December 4th at 4:00 pm in Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, off Sidgwick Avenue. The lecture will be followed by a charity reception at 6:15pm in Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College. This event will include book signing, organic vegetarian food, juice and wine. Tickets for the lecture cost £5 and £8.50, which includes two glasses of wine. All funds will go to the Tchimpounga sanctuary, reserve and community in the Republic of Congo, focusing on the empowerment and education of girls.

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THANK YOU – to you or your Roots & Shoots Group if you have successfully raised funds or collected donations for Tchimpounga during October.

Please send cheques (payable to JGI UK) to: The Jane Goodall Institute, Orchard House, 51-67 Commercial Road, Southampton SO15 1GG. Please mark the envelope ‘Roots & Shoots’.

Alternatively, you can go to any branch of NatWest and make a deposit using a paying in slip. The name of the account is: The Jane Goodall Institute UK, Account Number 08529043, Sort Code 60-00-01 (City of London Branch).

We will keep you updated on the amounts raised by all the Roots & Shoots groups and let you know exactly how the money will be spent in the Congo at Tchimpounga depending …

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Children in Brockenhurst joined thousands of young people around the world who are heeding Dr. Jane Goodall’s call to express their desire for peace in ceremonies that include the flight of Peace Dove puppets.

The children, in a joint initiative with the New Forest Carbon Footprint project, took part in both making and displaying Peace Doves at the Brockenhurst Village Hall at the weekend.

CHARLIE DIMMOCK (an English gardening expert and presenter) who was supporting the Carbon Footprint project took part in the peace day activities with the children as well as the project opening ceremony and prize giving.

The day marked the Roots & Shoots Day of Peace, which Dr. Goodall established in support of United Nations peace …

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In the presence of Dr Jane Goodall herself, St Michael’s primary school undertook a whole week of Roots & Shoots activities in Bournemouth. They are the first school in the UK to devote a full week of lessons and timetable to the Jane Goodall Institute Roots & Shoots education programme joining a network of thousands of young people around the world who undertake Roots & Shoots activities in over 100 countries. The programme, established by the Jane Goodall Institute empowers young people to take positive action on behalf of people, animals and the environment.

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In July this year Dr Jane was the guest of honour at the international World Scout Jamboree in Hylands Park, Chelmsford.

As part of this special occasion JGI UK delivered a number of Roots & Shoots educational workshops in the global development village.

Dr Jane spoke to over 2,000 young scouts from around the world about the opportunities they have to make a change, chimpanzee and human similarities, her beginnings and her mother’s influence, the threats facing chimpanzees and the environment through to the development of Roots & Shoots and her hope for the future. She then took part in one of the Roots & Shoots workshops with 20 young scouts.

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Dr Jane Goodall is to give a lecture at SOAS university in London on 19th June, 2007. Read more about the lecture here

Welcome to our brand new Roots & Shoots: Mission Possible website. Roots & Shoots: Mission Possible gives you the chance to improve your local environment now to help make the world a better place tomorrow. It sets you a number of missions that help you to learn about people, animals and your local environment and shows you how you can make a positive change.

Roots & Shoots: Mission Possible is currently being piloted with a small number of schools across the UK and will launch fully in September, when registered schools will be able to access Mission Briefs from ‘Chief Agent J’, travel to the future in the company of the ChronoBots R00T5 and 5H00T5 and help save the planet by …

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