My name is Joanna, I’m 8 years old and I live in South Carolina (USA).  I love pandas.  I became interested in Giant Pandas when my brother and I were watching Mei Mei in the Born in China film.  For Christmas I received a symbolic adoption of Hua Mei and I was so excited that I borrowed all of the Panda books from our local library!  I’ve learned about red pandas, too!   As I figured out how endangered giant pandas are, I wanted to do Pennies for Pandas to help.  In a couple of months we raised $56.  I used my birthday money and friends donated when they saw my Pennies for Pandas bucket.  Learning about Pandas and animals is so much fun, I like to cut out their pictures from magazines and tape them on my wall!

Thank you Joanna for your help saving the giant panda.