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This Tapestry of Hope project is powered by the Roots & Shoots program and Esri's Story Map visualization technology. The Tapestry of Hope plots the local projects by Roots & Shoots youth around the world in an interactive map.
Founded in 1991 by Dr. Jane Goodall and the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), Roots & Shoots is a global youth program originally started in Tanzania that has since spread to 140+ countries with over 4,000 project groups worldwide,...
JGI founded the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre (TCRC) in 1992, and since then has offered 25 years of sanctuary to orphan chimpanzees. Tchimpounga serves as a safe place for chimpanzees on this fight against illegal ape trafficking and poaching, caring for injured, sick, and often malnourished chimpanzees. The site was originally designed for 40-50 chimpanzees, so with the help of the government of Congo, JGI will expand the sanctuary and transfer about...
In 2009, protests erupted addressing oil drilling in northern Norway as the Labor Party held its national convention (Berg, 2015). Several environmental organizations bonded together to form the protest, and although MDG did not directly participate due to it being a political party, they stated that it was vital that the Labor Party shifted their view of the Lofoten debate to anti-drilling, and protected the islands once and for all. A big participator was the...
In the fall of 2000, Statoil drilled for the first time, but did not discover any oil (Naturvernforbundet, 2017). However, as this took place, political pressure against the Labor Party grew along with public unrest. MDG voiced its opinion on the matter, and even though they had little influence at the time, other political parties and Norwegian environmental organizations expressed the same concern. In 2001, direct protests took place, with the most famous one located...
After gaining direct political influence in 2013, MDG has also pushed heavily for the implementation of policies that encourage the use of electric cars, public transportation, biking and walking, while discouraging the use of carbon emitting vehicles. So far, several policies have been established over the past few years following MDG and other green parties' influence.
Firstly, Norway has increased the number and price of tolls throughout the country, particularly...
Farm Forward created a online social campaign to bring awareness to the mistreatment of male chicks in the egg industry. It brought light to the millions of male chicks being killed due to their worthlessness in the egg industry. By creating a website and two videos to raise awareness to these practices, big business such as Unilever's Best Foods and Hellmann's were pressured to change their practices. Farm forward demanded new practices which Unilever accepted and...
College campus play a big role in the purchasing of sustainable agriculture in the communities they reside in. Farm Forward worked with the UC school system to identify local alternatives to factory farms in the region. The UC system made a new contract with better local alternatives which produces a big change in that community. Colleges have a big demand for food, so it positively supports these local factories. It also makes a statement to other campuses that...
On September 12, 2015, Payton Head, a student at the University of Missouri and president of the Missouri Students Association, posted on Facebook that racial slurs had been yelled at him on campus. The African American student’s post exploded on social media and across campus. Twelve days later, protests started on campus. Students denounced the university for taking several days to respond to the incident after Payton Head’s post was published.
Nearly one month...
On the evening of April 4th, 2017, 100 labor and civil rights activists filled the historic church at Hayti Heritage Center in Durham to both commemorate the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and renew their commitment to King’s dream by holding a field hearing for low-wage workers. Hosted by Raise up for $15 in conjunction with the North Carolina NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives, the event stressed the need to fight racism through unionization and organized...
The project took place in the Cape of Good Hope national park that is in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa. The project was aimed at protecting the fynbos of the natural park and eliminated the Acacia Saligna from the National Park, where it alters the fire regime that the plants in the fynbos depend upon every year. The event took place near one of the lakes that support all sorts of aquatic life and are dependent upon the natural vegetation for their migration...