Educational outreach

Visiting Enfield Elementary School Dec. 4 in an educational outreach project sponsored by the Roots and Shoots humanitarian and environmental program, three Cornell students who are originally from Pakistan discuss Muslim culture and religion in everyday life. Speaking to fifth-graders are, from left, Nida Afzah Chaudhary, sophomore in human ecology; Omer Saeed Bajwa, graduate student in communication; and Wajih Tariq Effendi, sophomore in engineering. Said Bajwa of the visit with the school children: "They had lots of good, honest questions, especially about Ramadan and the self-control needed to go without eating for so long." Roots and Shoots is a worldwide student organization created by Cornell A.D. White Professor-at-Large Jane Goodall. Nicola Kountoupes/University Photography