Ahead of today’s student climate strikes, we joined Dr. Jane Goodall at London’s Barbican for Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots Awards to celebrate the achievements of young people campaigning, raising money, and making positive changes to help people, animals and the environment.
Dr. Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots programme is a powerful, youth-driven network that connects tens of thousands of young people that have a common desire to help make the world a better place. Operating in almost 100 countries around the world, charitable organisation Roots & Shoots is about making positive change happen – for communities, animals, and the environment, enabling young people to come together and share ideas and implement community projects.
The annual Awards are a celebration of the achievements of the Roots & Shoots groups who’ve campaigned, researched, raised money, made positive changes, raised awareness and worked as teams and individuals to help people, animals and the environment.
“Every year at the annual Roots & Shoots Awards in the UK I feel so much hope and receive so much inspiration,” said Dr. Jane Goodall, who presented the awards and delivered a powerful and inspiring speech. “Today students from 11 locations selected from the 2,000 groups who are part of our global Roots & Shoots programme shared their amazing projects.”