New Roots Program: Engaging Refugees in Nature

The New Roots Program engages refugee and immigrated youth in conservation action through a cost-free, place-based environmental education experience.

A fundraising campaign for Golden Eagle Audubon Society

$15

Supplies 1 set of materials to engage in restoration efforts on public land

$30

Provides education and art materials for each participant.

$50

Allows a student the use of a camera for photo journaling their experience

$100

Helps provide bus transportation on our daily field trips to amazing places

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The New Roots Program is a place-based education experience that connects refugee and immigrated children to the community and the environment, making them stakeholders in their new homes. We achieve this by offering a completely cost-free, two-week long summer camp for these youth in the Boise area.

This year we are increasing our impact by growing the program to be able to serve 30 kids each summer.

This program is lead by the Golden Eagle Audubon Society and is supported through collaboration with many of the Treasure Valley’s many nonprofit environmental organizations and area agencies, especially our partners at the Boise National Forest. The Program is now in its fifth year, and we are proud of the thousands of contact hours experienced with over 80 youth.

Please help us in our effort to keep this program running! This program is funded primarily through educational and environmental grant funding and through the contributions of caring individuals like you!

For more information please visit the Golden Eagle Audubon website (http://www.goldeneagleaudubon.org/New-Roots-Program) or find the New Roots Program on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NewRootsProgram).