Dear AOP
We are a class of year 5 students aged 10-11 and have just adopted 2 orangutan (Beda and  Ugo Blanco)  to help your project. (Name: 5Jam-is-on< Nicola Jamison)

Please see some of the  scanned pictures of some of the mother’s day cards the students made – please feel free to use them. The children made the cards than we photocopied them and sold them to the school community to raise funds for AOP.

My class are very keen to continue to raise funds and awareness for the Australian Orangutan Project. We have now finished our studies on the rainforest but the children are so keen we cannot stop. The children are very keen fundraisers so hopefully we’ll be back with more donations.

Again, Thank you for your awesome work in helping our furry cousins. The education website has great downloads – we really  enjoyed reading the articles.

We are very passionate about this issue and would love to hear from you if you have any more ideas for us.

Please see our letter below letting you know what we have done to help the orangutan.

regards,
5J and Nicola Jamison(teacher)

29/05/09
Dear Australian Orangutan Project,

We are students from year 5J at Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School, in northern New South Wales.

5J have been doing some work towards your foundation in many ways and we are very passionate about it. We have adopted Beda, one of your orphaned orangutans, and have been fundraising towards the cause. To raise money we have been selling Mothers Day cards that we have made with an orangutan theme. Students worked hard to create artworks which were then copied and printed as cards for Mothers Day. They have been immensely popular among the students and staff and we have raised over $300.

5J Students have made many posters and signs, and written to companies explaining the need to use different oil as it contributes to orangutan mothers’ lives being lost. We have urged many people to not buy products that contain palm oil and shared some information that we have found out with them.

We’ve found that many newspaper articles that have linked in with our orangutan research including “Palm Oil Threat to biodiversity”, “Got You covered Guys”, ”Sumatran orangutan haven faces chainsaws and “Baby Orangutan hospital saves lives and melts hearts”.

We’re amazed by how many people have contributed to the cause and how much money we have raised. 5J are so glad to have helped in your goal to prevent orangutans from becoming extinct and saving as many baby orangutans as you can.

We thank you for having this foundation, as many orangutans are grateful for your support. We are planning to do more towards your foundation and keep adopting orangutans. We will be sending $320.15 to you from our fundraising around the school and we want to help more.

Yours Sincerely,
5J students

written by Jesse L.