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The Jane Goodall Institute of
Italy was set up in December 1998 as the Italian branch of the
Jane Goodall Institute International (JGI) on the initiative of
the President the biologist
Daniela
De Donno. JGI Italy is a
socially useful non profit making organisation, its philosophy
and aims are based on those of the JGI International: acting to
build a better future for people, animals and the environment.
THE VISION OF JGI -ITALIA
To contribute to a mindful long-term global development, based
on equal distribution of resources and environment-friendly
choices.
THE OBJECTIVE
To protect and enhance biologic and cultural diversities.
OUR ACTIONS
To promote respect and solidarity.
To support young people in developing greater critical
conscience, individual engagement, self-confidence and hope in
the future.
OUR PROJECTS
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International cooperation to
development in Tanzania, having particular regard to orphans
because of AIDS.
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Environmental and
humanitarian education directed towards children and young
people up to university through the international program Roots&Shoots.
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Animal protection, having
particular regard to chimpanzees as a symbol of those animal
species that are threatened by extinction.
The projects of JGI Italy are:
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Sanganigwa
Project: for the children of an orphanage in
Kigoma, Tanzania near the Gombe National Park. The Kigoma region
of Tanzania is one of the poorest areas of the world. JGI Italy
supports the cost of food, medicine, schooling and recreation
for 59 Tanzanian children between the ages of 3 and 19 of
different ethnic and religious backgrounds. In addition, their
schooling is supplemented by an internal education programme
which aims to facilitate children over 18 with their entry into
the world of work.
To support the Sanganigwa project, JGI Italy has started up a
programme of “distance
sponsorship”, the programme is directed at both
institutions and private citizens.
- Environmental education:
Roots &
Shoots (italian version) is the environmental and humanitarian programme
dedicated to young people. The aim of R&S is to teach respect
for the environment, to promote knowledge and understanding of
other cultures and to uphold the importance of every
individual’s commitment. The young people of R&S are actively
involved in projects concerning the local community, the
environment and animals.
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Teaching
about peace and trans-cultural training (italian version):
Teaching about peace and trans-cultural training: to promote
inter-cultural knowledge and exchange, through a series of
didactic initiatives, a worldwide communication network and
concrete action. Respect and collaboration between citizens from
different cultural backgrounds is encouraged by means of
information on the origins and development of other societies.
Trans-cultural education directed at both young people and
adults greatly supports the process of social integration which
also requires an ever greater commitment to training in many
spheres, including the world of work.
- “So
like us” (italian version) programme: to expose the often deplorable
conditions of chimpanzees in captivity, to monitor and protect
chimps in captivity and to teach greater respect for this
species which is so similar to our own. Chimps should live
freely in the protected forests of Africa, if, unfortunately,
captivity is forced upon them then the structures in which they
live should be able to guarantee their well-being and
behavioural harmony. What’s more these structures have the
fundamental task of increasing public awareness of this species
as much as possible: that chimps too, just like people, prefer
to be free and that their natural habitats are unique and in
need of protection.
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