Mason City (Iowa) Kids Help Save Orangutans
Orangutan Outreach is beginning to organize support groups around the country. Please email us to learn more. We are not connected in any way with the group in Mason City, but we applaud their efforts. It is truly wonderful to see children so moved by something that they decide to take action. Bravo! Keep up the great work! ~ Richard Zimmerman (Director, Orangutan Outreach)
By Briana Denney
KIMT News 3
Mason City, IA- Roosevelt Elementary fourth graders in Mason City put together a fund raiser effort to help save orangutans. The students say the idea is from a book they read. It’s called “How to Babysit an Orangutan”. The kids learned the great apes could be extinct in seven years.
Students got more information and created a Power Point presentation, newsletter and television commercial to tell their school of the dangers the animals face.
One student says he wishes they could have done more.
“First we wanted it every Friday but our principal said only once. So we chose this day, Friday, March 21st, because it’s the day before spring break,” said Jaedon Bettle.
The students raised more than $400.00 With that money they can afford to babysit an orangutan for nearly three days.
