Global Roots Children’s Gardens and Girls Gardens are transforming the lives of children all over the world. In Africa, vegetables and chicken eggs supplied to school lunch programs are convincing impoverished families to send their children back to school. In Afghanistan,
our gardens are helping orphaned children find foster homes. In the Maasai Mara, our newest “Girls Garden” will convince Maasai families to keep their daughters in school and not sell them into early marriage.
It’s easy to sponsor your own garden! If you don’t have the funds to make a 5K tax deductible donation, please consider meeting with the leaders of your local elementary school, high school or a local business to seek the sponsorship of a Global Roots Children’s Garden. We will provide you with all of the documents you will need to convince the school or business that this is the perfect fundraising and morale-building project.
Once accepted, a member of Global Roots will visit you to discuss the creation of the garden. A Global Roots panel will then select one representative from the high school or business to visit the garden when it is producing vegetables and chicken eggs. School fundraisers will pay for both the garden and travel expenses of the school’s lucky representative.
Video images will be beamed in from the garden’s location and a web cam will be set up, allowing viewers to watch the garden grow on a weekly basis.
We’ve been doing this for a while! Please go to the “Travel with us” section to learn what our volunteers
are doing to help children all over the world.
In 2011, the actress, musician and award-winning humanitarian Torrey DeVitto (below with our founder) traveled to Portland, Oregon to speak to 60 high school students about Global Roots methodology. One of the students in attendance, then a freshman, approached our director and later volunteered to do office work at the headquarters of Global Roots. Today, Anna Horton (now a junior) has formed her own club at Lincoln and will sponsor a Girls Garden in Kenya next fall.
Please email us at info@globalroots.org or call: 503-866-9525 for more info!
If you are a high school student, click here for a printable PDF!
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