Sometimes it can all start from just one person passing on a thought or a comment or sharing a YouTube Clip.
Mrs Amanda Jones from Lauriston Girls' School who teaches at the Niall House Kindergarten's "Kookaburra Group" did just that. She first inspired her students through a simple YouTube Clip. This clip shows an Orangutan called Strawberry communicating with a profoundly deaf child using sign language. Strawberry tells the young girl who lives on the other side of the world that her Peanut Butter that contains Palm Oil is destroying Orangutans forest homes.
From here the kindergarten kids just wanted to help the Orangutans, all 117 of them! They made Orangutans out of clay and made posters to put up around the school. Then for International Orangutan Day they spoke at their whole school assembly, also showing the clip of Strawberry. This then inspired the Year 7-8 girls to get on board and help, who then held a bake sale.
The children also completed paintings, orangutan exhibitions, petitions, handprint cutouts and also made Orangutan masks! The Kookaburra Group finished off their project with a visit to Melbourne Zoo! In total a total of $440.20 was raised and they also adopted Chocolate!
Thank you Mrs Jones for inspiring all those wonderful students and staff who helped out!
The education team are working hard to get the Long Call Club sorted out and running and if your school donates to TOP or does an adoption they automatically become members of the Long Call Club. The future of the Orangutans and the other animals in the rain forest depends on the help from schools and the youth of today.
For further information on the schools program contact education@orangutan.org.au
The Schools Team are working hard to get the Long Call Club sorted out and running and if your school donates to TOP or does an adoption they automatically become members of the Long Call Club. The future of the orangutans and the other animals in the rain forest depends on the help from schools and the youth of today.
For further information on the schools program contact schools@orangutan.org.au
