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earth scouts: saving soles, saving lives

January 12th, 2011
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During December our Earth Scouts group participated in a service project of collecting shoes for Share Your Soles. You might think–why shoes? To be honest, I never really thought about the importance of shoes, but after learning more about this organization and exploring this issue, I now see how very valuable shoes can be–sometimes even [...]

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a journey to ten thousand villages

October 9th, 2010
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Earth Scouts has started up again and this year we are focusing on the human rights unit. So far we had one meeting in which we tried to provide a little overview of what we’ve done the last two years, and then we moved on to some general information of what human rights is all [...]

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who knew that $320 can get you a llama, a goat, chicks, and bees

May 24th, 2010
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What a day! Our Earth Scouts group finished up their unit on Economic Justice today earning two badges–one for the unit and a smaller one for the reading fundraiser that they have been working on for the past several months. The reading fundraiser, called Read to Feed, was part of our work to raise money [...]

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