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#HugATree today ~ Let’s show our love for trees around the world. Vancouver, BC — 03/10/2017 — Today is the first-ever International Hug a Tree Day! Trees do so much for us so get outside and hug a tree – or lots of trees! A Yale University report estimated that there are more than three…

Vancouver, BC — 03/09/2017 — The ChariTree Foundation provides free tree seedlings to children who in turn plant them through local restoration projects at camps and schools across Canada.  These children’s organizations must have a plan to care for the trees after planting. These days many children have less time and fewer opportunities to connect…

Children are the future but what kind of world will we leave behind for them if we are not educating them sufficiently about climate chance, deforestation, reforestation, self-sufficiency and green living? A great way to start is by planting a tree with them and the following #listicle offers 4 reasons why this is a fantastic…

More than 100,000 children have planted Wish Trees across Canada and around the world Vancouver, BC — 12/04/2016 –Without access to a healthy climate, children will be bereft of their fundamental rights to life. A perfect storm is brewing due to this happening at a time when the screen generation is being raised with less…

Tell us about your tree planting project Thanks to the thousands of children at @ccampingorg camps across Canada for planting trees. Special thanks to Catherine Ross, CCA provincial reps and camp staff for helping to get trees to campers, and thanks for sending in photos and completing your tree reporting forms. Camp Directors who have…

Close to 14,000 children from across Canada will have the opportunity to plant a tree at their summer camp or school this Spring. The ChariTree Foundation’s ‘A tree for every child’ program gives children trees to plant all across Canada by partnering with schools and The Canadian Camping Association. The Charitree Foundation is Canada’s environmental…

For the 8th year, The ChariTREE Foundation and CCA are partnering to bring an acclaimed tree planting program to Canadian camps. Learn how to sign up here.  

Congratulations to ChariTREE Foundation founder Andrea Koehle Jones, she is a 2015 Nature Inspiration Award finalist! Read more here: http://nature.ca/en/about-us/museum-corporation/nature-inspiration-awards/2015-finalists … #risingtothechallenge #eco 

At the start of this summer thousands of trees were planted by children at summer camps across Canada. For the seventh year, The ChariTree Foundation’s initiative to offer tree planting for kids program was a Tremendous success. If children are going to make a lifelong commitment to protect the environment for themselves and future generations,…

For the seventh year, The ChariTree Foundation’s initiative to offer tree planting for kids program is open to all Canadian camps, including those that planted trees in previous years. Given the known benefits to camps and campers, we urge all camps to join the program in a big or small way. Ordering By April 7, 2015,…

For the seventh year in a row, The ChariTree Foundation will offer free trees to children at Canadian Camping Association camps and other children’s organizations and schools. Check back for program updates and learn how to request trees for kids in February.

It took a cross-country trip to see that ChariTree is really starting to take root by Andrea Koehle Jones, Founder & Executive Director of The ChariTree Foundation Vancouver — If a seedling is planted in a forest does anybody notice? This summer on a drive back to British Columbia from Ontario with my family I learned the…

(Photos: Children at Teule Kenya plant fruit trees as part of a Canadian environmental education project.) VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA – September 8, 2014 –  The ChariTree Foundation is honoured to partner with the orphanage Teule Kenya again in an effort to give even more children an opportunity to plant fruit trees and learn about environmental…

The executive director of The ChariTree Foundation has just completed a trip from Ontario to British Columbia to visit camps that have received trees for campers in recent years. The purpose of the trip was to see how the trees planted by campers are doing – and they are doing great! Special thanks  to the camps…

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Due to the TREEmendous ongoing success of The ChariTree Foundation’s children’s tree program, Love Trees is hoping to expand this formula beyond Canada to children’s camps around the world. For the last six years, Andrea Koehle Jones, Executive Director of Love Trees and the ChariTREE Foundation, has given thousands of free trees to children at Canadian…

Thanks to Catherine Ross and all provincial reps for your TREEmendous help again this year. More than 15,000 tree seedlings will be delivered to CCA camp reps on Monday June 23, 2014 or Tuesday June 24, 2014. (If provincial reps don’t receive their seedlings by June 25th, please email info@charitree-foundation.org and I will track down…

  “Thanks so much for the opportunity for the kids to plant trees at the camp this year. I never realized how much the kids would enjoy it and feel like they were planting into the future.” – Marie Tubby, Director, Frontier Trails Camp This year, the ChariTree Foundation is sending more than 15,000 children at…

Teachers plant the seeds of knowledge that grow forever. Idea #1: DIY Mason Jar Tree Gifts for Teachers ~ Thanks for helping me grow free printable gift tags & tree tags Here’s a thoughtful and fun gift for the person who taught you children so much. This my kids year they picked-out GMO-free, pesticide-free, hardy dwarf cherry…

Here’s something fun to do with the kids this Earth Day – make eco crafts out of k-cups and t-cups – you know those single-serve coffee discs that can’t be recycled. What you need: K-cups, T-cups, any used single-serve plastic coffee pods/discs. Glue Gun How to make them: Simply arrange your pods in any shape….