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…
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…