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The free tree planting program for camps returns in 2016!
For the 8th year, The ChariTREE Foundation and CCA are partnering to bring an acclaimed tree planting program to Canadian camps. Learn how to sign up here.
ChariTree Foundation Founder is a 2015 Nature Inspiration Award finalist!
Congratulations to ChariTREE Foundation founder Andrea Koehle Jones, she is a 2015 Nature Inspiration Award finalist! Read more here: http://nature.ca/en/about-us/museum-corporation/nature-inspiration-awards/2015-finalists … #risingtothechallenge #eco
For the 7th year, thousands of Wish Trees were planted by kids at summer camps across Canada.
At the start of this summer thousands of trees were planted by children at summer camps across Canada. For the seventh year, The ChariTree Foundation’s initiative to offer tree planting for kids program was a Tremendous success. If children are going to make a lifelong commitment to protect the environment for themselves and future generations,…
Trees Available for Children Across Canada
For the seventh year, The ChariTree Foundation’s initiative to offer tree planting for kids program is open to all Canadian camps, including those that planted trees in previous years. Given the known benefits to camps and campers, we urge all camps to join the program in a big or small way. Ordering By April 7, 2015,…
Coming soon: The ChariTree Foundation 2015 Tree Planting Program for Kids
For the seventh year in a row, The ChariTree Foundation will offer free trees to children at Canadian Camping Association camps and other children’s organizations and schools. Check back for program updates and learn how to request trees for kids in February.
Canadian Family Completes Tree Planting Trip
It took a cross-country trip to see that ChariTree is really starting to take root by Andrea Koehle Jones, Founder & Executive Director of The ChariTree Foundation Vancouver — If a seedling is planted in a forest does anybody notice? This summer on a drive back to British Columbia from Ontario with my family I learned the…
Supporting environmental education for orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya
(Photos: Children at Teule Kenya plant fruit trees as part of a Canadian environmental education project.) VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA – September 8, 2014 – The ChariTree Foundation is honoured to partner with the orphanage Teule Kenya again in an effort to give even more children an opportunity to plant fruit trees and learn about environmental…
ChariTree’s director completes cross-country trip to check-up on trees
The executive director of The ChariTree Foundation has just completed a trip from Ontario to British Columbia to visit camps that have received trees for campers in recent years. The purpose of the trip was to see how the trees planted by campers are doing – and they are doing great! Special thanks to the camps…
ChariTree’s annual report
Read the full annual report here: Final2014AnnualMeeting-3
Love Trees is researching international camps based on the success of ChariTree’s Canadian program
Due to the TREEmendous ongoing success of The ChariTree Foundation’s children’s tree program, Love Trees is hoping to expand this formula beyond Canada to children’s camps around the world. For the last six years, Andrea Koehle Jones, Executive Director of Love Trees and the ChariTREE Foundation, has given thousands of free trees to children at Canadian…
Tree seedlings purchased and on their way to kids soon (arriving June 23 or June 24)
Thanks to Catherine Ross and all provincial reps for your TREEmendous help again this year. More than 15,000 tree seedlings will be delivered to CCA camp reps on Monday June 23, 2014 or Tuesday June 24, 2014. (If provincial reps don’t receive their seedlings by June 25th, please email info@charitree-foundation.org and I will track down…
Thousands of children across Canada will be receiving trees
“Thanks so much for the opportunity for the kids to plant trees at the camp this year. I never realized how much the kids would enjoy it and feel like they were planting into the future.” – Marie Tubby, Director, Frontier Trails Camp This year, the ChariTree Foundation is sending more than 15,000 children at…
Teachers gift Ideas: Thanks for helping me grow free printable
Teachers plant the seeds of knowledge that grow forever. Idea #1: DIY Mason Jar Tree Gifts for Teachers ~ Thanks for helping me grow free printable gift tags & tree tags Here’s a thoughtful and fun gift for the person who taught you children so much. This my kids year they picked-out GMO-free, pesticide-free, hardy dwarf cherry…
Children’s Earth Day Crafts: Single-serve coffee pod crafts
Here’s something fun to do with the kids this Earth Day – make eco crafts out of k-cups and t-cups – you know those single-serve coffee discs that can’t be recycled. What you need: K-cups, T-cups, any used single-serve plastic coffee pods/discs. Glue Gun How to make them: Simply arrange your pods in any shape….
The Star Catchers: One Family’s Earth Day Project
Inspired by our concern for the health of the starfish and all the creatures in the ocean, we decided to take on a project to reduce our garbage.
The Star Catchers: One family’s Effort to reduce plastic and garbage
Where have all the starfish gone? Every week I take the kids to the far side of the island to look for sea stars. We have been looking since last fall without success. It feels like the starfish are canaries in the coal mine of the ocean and that’s something to feel sad about and…
Happy Earth Day Crafts for Kids
Check out some of these fun tree crafts for kids.
Free trees for kids from The ChariTree Foundation
“Wenonah has been participating in this program for a few years now, and we love it. It provides our campers with astronger appreciation for the surrounding nature and our site. As well, allows us to regenerate areas of ourcamp that have been depleted by various activity.” – Geoffrey Williamson, Assistant Director, Camp Wenonah. Andrea Koehle Jones, Charitree’s executive director, is a former…
ChariTree Foundation 2014 National Camp Tree Planting Program for Children
In summer 2013, campers in over 75 camps across Canada planted a total of 20,000 trees! Once again, for the sixth consecutive year, Andrea Koehle Jones, Executive Director of the ChariTREE Foundation, is offering free seedlings to all Canadian camps. This program is open to all Canadian camps, including those that planted trees in previous…
Green Inspiration BC is Charitree’s newest Corporate Partner
The Charitree Foundation is grateful for the generous support of Green Inspiration BC Ltd. – our newest corporate partner. Green Inspiration is a new British Columbia-based company dedicated to collecting, reusing and recycling textile materials. Thanks to Green inspiration BC thousands of children will be receiving trees this year!