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For the promotion of International Education and Community Service |
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 ECIS schools, their staff and students are characterized by knowledge of, and respect for, their own values and those of others. The ECIS Outreach Program has been developed to encourage and support a wide range of diverse student projects and activities within ECIS member schools as part of service learning. ECIS is committed to fighting prejudice against children and to promoting cross-cultural awareness and understanding, tolerance and international education amongst member schools and their communities in all regions of the world.
Download the guidelines/application packet here>> |
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| The ECIS Global Issues Committee will be awarding five project grants for the year 2007-8, as follows: | |
• International School of Prague ‘Helping an orphanage in Nigeria ' more>> • The Inter-Community School Zurich ‘Second Chance, Moshi , Tanzania' more>> • Frankfurt International School ‘Support for the Kalahari Experience 2008' more>> PowerPoint Presentation – created by Emir Tigrel Grade 11 student FIS, who went to the Kalahari in March 2008. Cheers, • International School of Brussels ‘Nas Mir (Our World)' more>> • St George's British International School , Italy ‘Building towards better lives, Zambia' more>> Zambian Orphanage Newsletter – produced by the students on the St George’s ZOA Committee |
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2006-7 Outreach Project Grants |
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Anuj Vyas, a Year 13 IB student at British School of Houston. The Vyas project is entitled ‘Health, Hygiene & Environmental Education Facility at Vatsalya Gram located in India: A Pilot Project’. The main goal of the project is to establish a Health, Hygiene and Environmental Education facility at Vatsalya Gram, a 50-acre village for underprivileged children and women in Vrindavan, India. Ambrose Kelly, Kalahari Project Director at Frankfurt International School. The well-established and wide-ranging Kalahari project is using the ECIS grant to fund two teachers from the Kalahari region to go to Australia and Germany for a minimum of one month’s training. Kelly attended the ECIS Conference in Nice along with Mrs Schola Dithebe, one of the Kalahari teachers funded by this grant. Thomas Hemingway, Project Manager at TED Ankara College Foundation High School, Turkey. The Hemingway project, entitled ‘Those Who Teach, Learn’ hopes to extend the reach of the ECIS and IB philosophy and practice to low income education majors studying in Ankara: to provide educational and cultural enrichment opportunities to women education students via a series of cultural events, discussions and resource sharing. Yonay Rodriguez, IB-CAS Coordinator, International School Havana, Cuba. The project, ‘Harvest of Joy and Hope’, will involve students from the school working with children who are suffering from cancer in order to foster their learning, entertainment and social interaction skills and to spread the multi-cultural character of the school. ECIS has developed the Outreach Program as a part of its commitment to the promotion of an international outlook amongst its member schools and communities around the world. The program has been implemented to support, by means of financial assistance, a wide range of student projects and activities which promote cross-cultural awareness and understanding, international education and service learning. 2006 is the launch year of the program. UPDATE >> The ECIS Outreach Committee selected the four winning projects out of a total of seven applications. Updates on all of these projects will be posted in this section of the website. If your school is interested in applying for a 2008 stipend, please click here for an application packet. |
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