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    Atsuko5to attend college in California. When she arrived, however, she found it was not her6world. “People were struggling with problems and often seeme7”, she said. “I felt very alone.”

One of her hardest8was physical education. “We played volleyball,” she said. “The other students were9it, but I wasn't.”

    One afternoon, the instructor asked Atsuko to10the ball to her teammates so they could knock it11the net. No problem for most people, but it terrified Atsuko. She was afraid of losing face12she failed.

A young man on her team13what she was going through. “He walked up to me and14, ‘Come on. You can do that.'”

    “You will never understand how those words of15made me feel...Four words: You can do that. I felt like crying with happiness.”

    She made it through the class. Per haps she thanked the young man；she is not16.

    Six years have passed. Atsuko is back in Japan, working as a salesclerk. “I have17forgotten the words,” she said. “When things are not going so well, I think of them.”

She is sure the young man had no idea how much his kindness18to her. “He probably doesn't even remember it,” she said. That may be the lesson. Whenever you say something to a person-cruel or kind-you have no idea how long the words will19. She's all the way over in Japan, but still she hears those four20words: you can do that.

        In 1991，Jane Goodall began Roots and Shoots, a program thatencourages young people to work to protect the Earth.TFKKid Reporter ChandlerSchaak caught up with Goodall at a Roots and Shoots 1at Zoo Boise,in Idaho.

       Kai Neander, 15, digs saving theEarth.2president of the Sequoia Park Zoo Roots and Shoots program,in California, he helped plant 564 trees. His group's 3is to plant 1，000 trees by the end of the year.“4little thingyou do makes a difference，”he says.

Roots and Shoots5youngpeople to volunteer in their communities to help 6animals and theirhabitats.Jane Goodall started the 7in 1991.She is8for herstudy of chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, in Tanzania, East Africa.Today,there are more than 8，000 Roots and Shootsgroups in nearly 100 countries.

       “I 9the idea for Rootsand Shoots because I met so many young people who had 10hope，”Goodall told TFK.“Thisprogram teaches youth that 11they all get together, they can make adifference.”

        Tara Adiseshan, a high schoolsenior, hopes to12her mark on the natural world.She and othermembers of the Charlottesville Roots and Shoots Club, in Virginia, began a13tosave frogs.Tara worked with14at James Madison University, also inVirginia, to test a 15for a deadly fungus that16frogs.Acure is now being tested in the 17 ．

Tara plans to give talks in localschools to raise 18about the threat to frogs.She also invited a frogexpert to 19at a nature park in her community.

“No matter how many problems weface，”Tara says, “there is still 20as long as kidslike us continue to care.”

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