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Third graders in Kelly Green's class at Sunnyvale Christian School learned that orangutans are in danger because their habitats are being destroyed by the illegal logging of rain forests and also because they are illegally killed for food and the babies are caught and sold illegally as pets.
So the students in Green's class decided to do something for these apes on Orangutan Awareness Day.
They created an orangutan habitat in their classroom, so they could teach their fellow schoolmates about these apes.
They also set up a snack bar and a craft store to raise money to help protect orangutans. They sold orangutan bracelets, bookmarks, rainforest frogs, bugs and jungle rings. For snacks they hawked trail mix, jungle juice, banana cups with chocolate or neon worms and orangutan bread and cookies.
The final tally was some $300 from the sale, which was divided between www.ioaw.org and www.organutan. com. The money sponsors an orphaned baby orangutan for the rest of the school year.
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Photograph by Jacqueline Ramseyer