“You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give” – Winston Churchill Contributed by English Communication students and their teacher John Heron at ILSC-Montréal On December 12, 2015, we had a great opportunity to work as volunteers at Logifem. Logifem is a charity organization, which helps women to…
ILSC Montreal – Keeping the support of microfinance going through KIVA….
Hello everyone! Here’s the latest update on our continued support of small international businesses through KIVA. For those of you who don’t know, KIVA is a non-profit organisation with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, KIVA lets individuals lend as little…
Share the Warmth project (ILSC Montreal)
Contributed by Sarah Milburn and her English Business Class students at ILSC-Montréal This session I decided to introduce the Business English class at ILSC-Montréal to the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility during their course. As part of the course experience I took them to volunteer at a local food bank., the same one I had…
Corporate Social Responsibility at ILSC
ILSC’s spirit of reaching out into our local and global communities continues to drive a number of great CSR initiatives around our campuses. Our most recent CSR efforts included: Go Hashimoto fundraiser – In October, students and staff at ILSC-Sydney raised money for Japanese international student Go Hashimoto, who slipped off an apartment balcony 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…