Contributed by Andrea Sebova, Student Services Manager, Greystone College Christmas is a time of tradition, and the spirit of the holidays is about giving. This is an important time to consider others: to do what we can where we are. It’s about giving for “givings” sake. Giving is about recognizing individual responsibility and evoking the…
Social Volunteer Internship at ILSC-New Delhi: The days that I am called “Sir”
Contributed by Eiichi Tanaki, Social Volunteer Internship Student at ILSC-New Delhi From this week, I have started a new program in India. It is a job of a voluntary teacher (in an NGO School at Gurgaon, India) for 5 to 16 year olds from the slums. I had looked for an internship program at a company in…
Fundraising for the HOPE FOR YOUTH – Study in Canada Project at ILSC
Contributed by Mara Muller, Communications Coordinator/Copywriter, ILSC-Vancouver It has been more than a year and a half since the Great East Japan Earthquake /Tsunami struck. In Canada, debris from the tsunami began washing up on west coast shores this summer, and in Japan, the effects are still being felt as reconstruction of the affected…
Kiva – Empower people around the world with a $25 loan
Contributed by Sarah Milburn – TESOL Program Coordinator and Instructor – ILSC-Montreal ILSC-Montreal is proud to announce that its International Business class made 4 more small business loans through KIVA last session, taking our total number of loans made to 27, since we first began lending in October 2010! For those of you who don’t know, KIVA…
Sustainable Development at ILSC
Contributed by Nadine Zerbel, Marketing Manager – Western Europe This was partly inspired by our friends at ESL, based in Switzerland, who have created a CSR self-assessment tool for language schools after putting a great deal of thought into their own sustainable development policies. For ILSC, using the tool helped us to formalize the positive…