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Planting the Seeds for Conservation
Through Youth Education and Involvement
Alexandra Rojek was 5 years old when she began participating
in the Chicago Zoological Society’s Zoo Adventure Passport
(ZAP!) program in 1998. Her family lived in Chicago’s
Belmont Cragin community and heard about the free monthly
after-school program through their neighborhood library.
Alexandra loved the program—it included library activities and
field trips to the zoo and other destinations, but most of all, she
was drawn to learning about what she now knows is cultural
and ecological diversity.
Maggie Warren, community relations program assistant, with two students at Eden Place ZAP!
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