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Rehoboth Elementary School fifth-graders
Rehoboth Elementary School fifth-graders
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Rehoboth Elementary School:
Delaware’s Future Conservationists

The Conservancy’s Delaware chapter is benefiting from a new generation of conservationists emerging from Rehoboth Elementary School. During the past two school years, fifth-graders have donated significant funds towards conservation as part of a unit focusing on the Earth’s ecosystems and how all living things interact with each other.

In June 2007, four students from the Jacquie Kisiel’s fifth grade class raised more than $300 for Brazil’s rainforests as their own advocacy group, Liv-2-Luv. More recently, 16 fifth-graders donated more than $500 for land acquisition projects in Africa as a new organization, All Paws In.

“They raised the money from bake sales and jewelry parties,” shares Kisiel. “They posted announcements all over the school and their hard work really paid off.”

As they finished the school year, All In Paws members expressed that they hoped incoming fifth-graders would be inspired to continue with this progress, since the future of the planet is in their hands.