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…
The Spirit of Christmas year round – Greystone College supports Covenant House
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…
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…