Kids Go Over the Top

Resources for Health's Roots & Shoots program is affiliated with the Jane Goodall Institute's network of service-learning groups around the world. In our group, families take action to care for their communities, the environment, and animals through service-learning projects.

Another local nonprofit organization, Breaking UP Walls (www.breakingupwalls.org), is coordinating this project in which our group and others are participating. We are making care packages for a community of homeless youth who live under a bridge in a barrio in South Phoenix. These young people are without homes and families and have not been able to find help through the various "systems”. The care packages include snack, hygiene, and comfort items assembled in pillow cases that our kids have artfully decorated. The care packages also include sleeping mats made from recycled jeans.