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The Roots & Shoots correspondence program

Partnerships in Understanding pairs Roots & Shoots groups who want to get to know each other better to team up to tackle a common issue. You can ask to be paired with someone on the other side of the city, or on the other side of the globe.

Partner groups receive a welcome kit to get them started on getting to know each other, their cultures and ideas for common projects.

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Partners in Action

 

In Fall 2009, the Loreto Kids group from Zug, Switzerland, was paired with the NAMS group from Massachussets, USA.

These two groups have corresponded by old-fashioned letters, sending each other profiles and photos of their group members, along with personalized touches, such as poems and postcards.

Both groups have learned much about each others' culture - what they have in common and interesting differences. They also share their project stories and ideas!

 

  

 

Loreto Kids preparing for their Christmas market.

It´s more exciting to have something real from another country and our partner group did send us beautiful poems!

                                    ~ Sophia Kohler, Switzerland

Our students have exchanged letters, "I Am" poems ... and culture collages. Our partner group, Loreto Kids, has also shared photos of themselves as well as the dog they are sponsoring.

  

Communicating via mail has been exciting and successful. This experience is teaching the students the almost lost form of letter writing and how much fun it is to wait in a time of instant messaging as they anxiously await letters from their new pen pals.

The students are amazed at the number of languages that their pen pals speak as many of them (my students) only speak English. They are also noticing that, although they live far away, they share many things in common with their new Swiss friends.                             

                                    ~ Kris Wolfson, USA

 

 

The Eastern Regional High School Roots & Shoots group from New Jersey, USA, was paired with the Gbawe Youth Club in Mallam-Accra, Ghana.

 

"So far, I've learned the other projects the Ghana group are doing and how they conduct a successful club. It was interesting to see how an established club was working, since, it is just the beginning of the school year for us, and we are having a rocky start. It is nice to receive advice every once in a while.

Their club is extremely organized, which I admire and strive for. It was also good to see the variety of projects both of us do.

It is amazing to know that I can learn and communicate with a stranger and group from a different part of the world all because we have the same interest in being a Roots and Shoots member."

                                                                                                                                                                                                     ~ Natalie Kittikul, Eastern Regional



 

 

"Our partnership with the Eastern Regional High School Roots & Shoots has made us understand that we are not alone. Others are doing something to make the world at peace. Eastern Regional High School Roots & Shoots is also taking actions that are contributing to the sustainable development in the coming decade."

                                                                                                

                                                             ~ Philip Kyei, Ghana