Madera Unified students compete to help Fresno Chaffee Zoo's baby elephants

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Schools crossed Madera are moving to rise wealth for Fresno's Chaffee Zoo's first-ever African elephant calves successful the "Change for Change" campaign.

Organizers with the zoo accidental betwixt Nov. 4 and 15, each simple schoolhouse schoolroom successful the Madera Unified School District volition beryllium equipped with a coin container, collecting alteration to enactment preparations for the zoo's babe elephants.

The zoo says the apical 3 classrooms that rise the astir volition triumph a sojourn from the ZooMobile, a van acceptable to bring close-up unrecorded carnal presentations to the classrooms.

The wealth raised volition beryllium matched dollar for dollar up to $150,000 acknowledgment to pb donors Claude Laval and Louis and Dena McMurray, and supporting donors Cynthia Smith, Community Care Health and Premier Valley Bank.

Community members are besides encouraged to nonstop immoderate spare alteration to participating classrooms.

For much accusation connected however to participate, delight interaction Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s Development Department astatine giving@fresnochaffeezoo.org.