The KIDS for the BAY Legacy

• 40,000 students understand the importance of their right to live in a clean and healthy environment and have the tools needed to speak out on local environmental health and justice issues

• In urban creek restoration projects, 500 community creek clean-up projects have been completed, over 4,000 riparian plants have been planted along creeks and 4,000 Pacific Chorus Frogs have been raised in classrooms and released into creeks

• In pollution reduction projects, over 5,000 student-designed posters, brochures and T-shirts about reducing urban runoff pollution have been displayed and distributed in school communities and 2,000 student letters about reducing pollution to the bay have been sent out to politicians

• In safe bay food consumption projects, 100 classes of 30 students have interviewed people fishing on bay piers and passed out informational flyers on safe bay food consumption in seven different languages, 100 creative student presentations to families about reducing pollution to the bay and taking precautions in fishing for, cooking and eating bay fish have been attended by an average of twenty parents for each presentation.

“Your programs provide our students with a purpose for academic pursuit.” -Marco Gonzales, Principal, Cesar Chavez School, Richmond