It is a nationwide program that connects people over age fifty-five with elementary school students from low-income families.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

The students from nearby Bancroft Elementary School will help grow fifty-five kinds of vegetables, herbs and berries.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

The children are all fourth-graders at a Washington-area elementary school.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Elementary school principal Oumar Sow is director of the eco-school program in Gud-Chantier.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Alex Ocean, an elementary school teacher whose Port-au-Prince school is now closed because of the quake, says he hopes that aid distribution in the camp will become better organized and that there will be international help with reconstruction.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02