Million Tree Project Highlighted by Shanghai Expatriate

Shanghai-Roots & Shoots is featured in an article in the current issue of Courier, the monthly journal published by the Shanghai Expatriate Association (Volume 24 Number 4, page 22-23.) The article entitled “Holiday Gift Giving” includes a section entitled “Give the Gift That Keeps on Giving.” This article features Roots & Shoots alongside other local charities that help to improve the lives of people living in China.

Here is the text of the article:

ROOTS AND SHOOTS:The Million Tree Project is a sustainable program that will plant one million trees in the Eastern desert of Inner Mongolia to stop the sand, and give the arable land back to the local farmers in KuLunQi, China. You can learn about the project at www.mtpchina.org. Roots and Shoots has lovely Holiday/ Season’s Greeting cards, (and birthday cards) that include a certificate stating that 10 trees will be planted in our growing forest in April, 2012. The cost of the card is the cost of ten trees to be planted, RMB 250. This is a way to give back to China, to do something environmental that matters, and to give a gift that truly does keep on giving. Every one of our Roots & Shoots promotional products includes the cost of at least one tree sapling and its care for 20 years! Go to www.jgi- shanghai.org to order holiday cards, tee shirts, re-useable fabric bags, chop stick holders with our without bamboo chopsticks, locally made soap and tree ornaments that can be personalized, painted and used as gift cards.

For more information about the products email member Kathleen Kelly at Kathleen.kelly@jgi-shanghai.org