MISSION AND PROGRAMS

The mission of the Tree Musketeers is to bring about environmental improvement through their own actions, and by their example to challenge other young people and businesses to join the youth environmental movement.

Tree Musketeers is structured to develop youth in leadership roles that will impact the adult world. Recognizing that kids are the political and business leaders of tomorrow, members of Tree Musketeers deliver a positive message, are active citizens of the community, and vocal advocates of Mother Nature.

Tree Musketeers has actively influenced municipal policies, published a regular column in the local newspaper, persuaded merchants to carry Earth-safe products, produced and aired an environmental television quiz show, set up a children`s Speakers Bureau, planted more than 700 trees as a pollution barrier around El Segundo, and established local and national (800) hotlines.

TM has also chaired the city's Recycling Committee in the drafting of the municipal integrated waste management plan, conducted the public education component of the interim plan, and opened the city's first complete recycling drop-off center. It continues to work with locally-based corporate giants in directing attention to the environment as a member of the South Bay Business Environmental Coalition.

By 1993, Tree Musketeers administered the first National Youth Environmental Summit, where two youth directors chaired a steering committee of 15 youth agency partners, whose collective profile represented nearly half a million organization members of 446 chapters in 50 states and 35 foreign countries.

• TREES AROUND THE WORLD invites people of all ages, cultures, and walks of life to gather under trees with family, friends and other community members to promote a global vision of unity-in-diversity. This global celebration, under one symbolic tree of life, pays tribute to our collective home, the Earth.

• GLOBAL SISTERS COMMUNITIES unites American sister groups/school with children in Mainland China, and other countries where environmental doors are just opening, in Earth Day celebrations.

• HOMETOWN FOREST PROGRAM produces an educational by kids and for kids community forestry package containing communication and management tools for implementing local Hometown projects.

• YOUNG EXECUTIVE PROGRAM serves as an innovative multi-level educational model ensuring that skills of the young executives keep pace with their rapidly growing agency. In this program, leadership, personal development, volunteer coordination, grant administration, and program direction are among the skills developed and used to support the organizationÍs activities.

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  TREE MUSKETEERS PRINCIPAL LEADERS:

  Tara Church, 19 years old

  Founder and Immediate Past President TREE MUSKETEERS

  Co-chair Steering Committee '95 Partners for the Planet Youth Summit

  Assistant Youth Editor of Grassroots Youth Magazine.

  Sabrina Alimahomed, 18 years old

  Founder and Past President TREE MUSKETEERS

  Youth Administrator '95 National Partners for the Planet Youth Summit

  Both youth principals are contributing writers to international environmental magazines Grassroots and Grassroots Youth Magazine(a publication for Partners for the Planet), published journalists and accomplished public speakers.

  Gail Church

  Executive Director TREE MUSKETEERS

  Adult Administrator '95 National Partners for the Planet Youth Summit

  Contributing writer/Editorial Liason Grassroots Youth Magazine

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  For more information, please contact Tree Musketeers
  136 Main St., El Segundo, CA 90245
  telephone (310) 322-0263, fax (310) 322-4482, hotline (800) 473-0263

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