Awards

Who can enter?

School groups, college groups, university groups, community groups, family groups and youth groups in the UAE can all join Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots UAE and submit an entry for the awards.

When, where, who and what?

Each year we invite Roots Shoots groups to the awards ceremony to display their work and meet Dr Jane Goodall herself. The next awards ceremony will be held in January 2024 at Terra Pavilion, EXPO, Dubai. As well as meeting Dr Jane; award winners receive certificates, trophies and signed books.

How can my group enter?

First, if you haven’t done so already, your group needs to join Roots & Shoots by filling in this form online. Once your group is a member you need to write up all the good work that you are doing in the form of a ‘Mission Update’ for this website (instructions on how to do this are provided when you sign up). You can find lots of great examples of mission updates here to help you see what you need to do. Mission updates can be about anything that shows how you have been helping people, animals and the environment – this can be something you have already done this year, a currently running project, a great idea of your own that you have undertaken successfully, or you can carry out and write up one of our specially written learning resources and activities.

Once you have added your mission updates to the website you can apply to attend the awards by sending an email to rootsnshoots@ead.ae. The email needs to provide the following information:

• Name of school/group, age group of students/members.
• When you joined Roots & Shoots.
• Why you would like to attend the awards.
• Have you attended before (if so, which years).
• What activities you have implemented so far (this school year only).
• What activities you commit to implementing (for the rest of the school year).
• What you can do for UAE’s people, animals and the environment.

Please keep your email brief! (equivalent to no more than 1 sheet of A4 paper)

Any other tips?

Your mission updates need to demonstrate how you have made a practical, positive difference to either people, or animals, or the environment. If you can show in your mission update how you have helped to make the world a better place for any one, or all, of these then you will be eligible for entry. To improve your chances of success you should demonstrate that you have made a positive difference to all three aspects (people, animals and the environment) either in a single mission update or over the course of a number of mission updates for your group.