CAS Fair 2021

Due to current circumstances this year's CAS FAIR edition will be held online. I am pleased to invite students to consult the gallery below for service opportunities on campus or from our network of partners. Gallery features name of club or organization and type of service available. For sign ups please use the contact details listed below each opportunity.

All Special Kids (ASK) - support children

ASK (All Special Kids) is a Geneva-based, non-profit organisation and an NGO founded in 2003 in direct response to parents’ needs. ASK is dedicated to offering a range of programmes and services to support children with learning differences and special educational needs. Our programmes are driven by the needs of parents, their children and the professionals in the field. ASK is a volunteer run organisation. Our programmes and events could not happen without our dedicated and motivated volunteers. Come and add your skills and interests to our team. Through a unique network approach, ASK volunteer program gives student volunteers, young adults between 15 and 18, a positive experience with community service. ASK volunteer program helps each volunteer to connect with a good cause, while taking into consideration the time and location of any community service, in order that it fits their schedule and time commitments.

Contact volunteer.coordinator@allspecialkids.org

BOOK CLUB - Join the club!

The Book Club consists of reading one book per month, which will be discussed in monthly meetings (time and location TBC). You can choose to read the books and participate in the meetings that most interest you. Please contact Nicolas Salloum (nicolas.salloum@learning.ecolint.ch) or Kayane El-Ayache (kayane.el-ayache@learning.ecolint.ch) to join or for further information.

ESCA CancerSupport - CAS Projects 2021

ESCA CancerSupport provides emotional support, practical help, well-being activities and a welcoming community in English to anyone affected by cancer. In 2020 we saw a 24% increase in people contacting ESCA Cancer Support for help, touching the lives of over 200 people. Without the generosity and fundraising efforts of our community we wouldn’t be able to make this happen

We are looking for CAS students who are interested in developing their project and communication skills by arranging fundraising or awareness raising activities on our behalf.

Interested students can contact Marina Teahon at marcom@cancerSupport.ch

Club Latin cl. 9-13

Ave !

Jules César, Cléopâtre, Spartacus… Alix et Astérix vous attendent !Découvrez les secrets de la 1ère grande langue internationale de l’histoire, l’anglais de l’Antiquité. Thermes ou cirque ? Carrière consulaire ou dure vie de gladiateur ? Vivez au rythme des conquêtes impériales, parcourez sur votre char les premières voies carrossables internationales, jouissez du style de vie romain ! Vieux de 2500 ans – album, video, ad hoc, audio, alter ego, museum, confer, sine die, sine qua non, idem, AM/PM- le latin est toujours jeune! Cicéron, Virgile, Tite-Live et les autres se réjouissent de vous raconter le monde romain de l’intérieur.

Un plus: présentez-vous au National Latin Exam et validez votre niveau de connaissances !

Jeudi et vendredi, 12.40 à 13.25 en GB109 geraldine.freeman@ecolint.ch

Ave!

Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Spartacus... and Asterix await you! Discover the secrets of the first major international language in history – the English of the Ancient World. Take your pick: the steam baths or the circus? A privileged Consul’s life or the tough existence of a gladiator? March with Rome’s conquering legions, race your chariot down the world’s first international highways, and enjoy the Roman lifestyle! Although 2500 years old – album, audio, ad hoc, alter ego, museum, confer, sine die, video, sine qua non - Latin remains forever young! Cicero, Virgil, Livy and company will be only too happy to give you an insider’s view of the Roman world.

A tip: take the National Latin Exam and validate your level of knowledge!

Thursdays and Fridays, 12.40 to 13.25 in GB109 geraldine.freeman@ecolint.ch

AFRICA LEARNING INTERNATIONAL

Organisation: Africa Learning International

Objective: Quality education on the African continent

Method: supporting teachers through training and students through exciting learning opportunities

Collaboration with LGB students: support the opening of a library for students and teachers in Yaoundé, Cameroon through:

- Book collection

-Sponsored running/sports

-Co-organising a multicultural show as fundraiser

Areas of CAS potentially covered: Creativity-Activity-Service

Contact: estellegb.hughes@gmail.com / info@africalearninginternational.com

Education For All in sierra leone

NGO: Education For All founded by Martine Coppens former teacher at LGB, les

Marronniers.

We are working in the Western area of Sierra Leone and manage 2 Primary Schools founded

by our NGO.

We support all 650 students of both schools . We give scholarships to 50 Secondary

Students, organize activities for women and will also start an IT project in September. We

will also provide safe drinking water for the children and improve the sanitary situation in

the villages.

Help us to raise awareness to the challenges of the children of these deprived areas and to

collect funds needed to continue our projects. Help is welcome for the IT project.

Contact : Martine Coppens

martinecoppens3@gmail.com or edforallsl@gmail.com

Les félins des Cimes

L'association Les Félins Des Cimes lutte contre la prolifération des chats errants en stérilisant les adultes sauvages et en les relâchant sur les sites, ou en récupérant les chats et les chatons sociables. Ces derniers sont alors placés en familles d'accueil, en vue de leur adoption.

Contactez lesfelinsdescimes@gmail.com

International Bridges to Justice (IBJ)

It is estimated that globally over 1 million children are in detention, many are arbitrarily detained, tortured, and denied access to counsel, Poor and alone, they have no legal counsel and nowhere to turn. International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) is an NGO and a global leader in systems change for access to justice, the IBJ Youth movement is a new initiative dedicated to improving access to justice across the world by creating a global youth network that will facilitate collaboration on SDG 16 projects. We are seeking students passionate about human rights, law and justice who will establish youth chapters and partner with young human rights defenders carrying out projects to assist children in conflict with the law around the world. Please contact Ella O'Reilly at youth@ibj.org to learn more about this opportunity.

LAW 101 - join the club!

Law 101 was founded by Martina Ravano and India Tamari, now in Year 13, as a club where people interested in law and justice could come together and put their passion and skills to work. The club was a success last year and now continues this year. Perla in Year 12 is taking over the club for this year and is happy to welcome any person interested in law to the club. You do not need to have any past experience in law or justice, just to be interested. This year, we will be doing several mock trials on famous cases throughout history, learning about the structure of trials and what shapes our legal system, and hearing various guest-speakers, amongst them a former criminal-lawyer now working in corporate law. The official start date is not decided yet but will be set within the next two weeks. Being part of this club counts for CAS!

For any questions, please feel free to email perla.lepage@learning.ecolint.ch and make sure to follow our Instagram @law101_lgb and we hope to see you soon!

Maxwell’s Demons Physics Club - join the club!

Want to improve your problem-solving skills, numerical skills, and deepen your understanding of physical concepts? Come to Maxwell's demon physic club to work on physics problems and potentially enter a competition.

Time and venue: Tuesdays, 16:30

STEM Centre

Contact siwhoon.oh@learning.ecolint.ch

The Partage Foundation

The Partage Foundation is the Geneva food bank. We collect and sort unsold goods from Geneva's food companies and shops to distribute them free of charge to our beneficiary institutions, which help and feed people in need in Geneva. If you want to help us, you can organize a collect of goods (food and hygenic products – a list is provided to your school), participate to the Samedi du partage (next one is on 26th and 27th of November) or also to the sorting of the products following this action. Here’s the website to register 1) for the Samedi du partage https://partage.benevoles.events/manif/SamPar (opens at the end of September 2) for the sorting of the goods (opens shortly after 27th November) https://partage.benevoles.events/manif/TriDen

CAS in the Performing Arts | LGB, 21-22

LGB’s extracurricular performing arts programme (ENCORE Performing Arts) offers multiple opportunities for Creativity, Activity, and Service projects, including many with a strong student leadership component.

CAS projects can be created through clubs (Musical Theatre Club, French Theatre Club, Tech Theatre Club), through medal-level qualifications (LAMDA Public Speaking, LAMDA Acting, LAMDA Musical Theatre, CPMDT Conservatoire Populaire training), and through advanced performance groups (Voice Company, Dance Company).

CAS students can also create projects in the Middle and Primary Schools by assisting with groups (Drama Groups in French and English), assisting with clubs (Stage Combat), and even assisting in the Magic Academy.

Questions: encorelgb@ecolint.ch or allison.bryan@ecolint.ch

Serve The City Geneva

A great place to serve and even get CAS credits. Who are we?

Welcome!

Serve The City Geneva is an organisation that aims to mobilize volunteers by partnering with existing organisations that are already serving the poor and marginalised. By mobilising resources in the form of volunteers to organisations, we believe we can impact individual lives and the communities we serve. We partner with homeless shelters, refugee centres, orphanages, and other associations, and invite volunteers to show kindness through practical help and support.

Mission

Serve the City Geneva’s mission is to provide volunteer resources to organizations serving the poor and marginalized of Geneva.

Do look at our website for current and past events! Register and get on the mailing list! You can even find an event and signup now.

Website

https://www.servethecitygeneva.ch/language/en/

The Student’s League of Nations (SLN)

The Student’s League of Nations (SLN) is a realistic simulation of the United Nations’ General Assembly by young people aged 16–20 from schools throughout the world. It is successor to the Students’ United Nations (SUN), founded by the International School of Geneva in 1953 – at the initiative of Robert Leach, a historian who had a long and distinguished career at the school – and the first of its kind in the world. SUN was renamed SLN in 1983 in honour of the League of Nations, the world’s first comprehensive attempt to settle differences peacefully rather than through brute force. SUN/SLN is therefore the world’s oldest simulation of the UN by students, and the only one that takes place within the premises of the United Nations Organization. The objective is to participate in a realistic simulation of the United Nations’ General Assembly in the role of delegates. The rules stipulate that each delegation is composed of two students who may not represent their own country. After a selection process and registration, the students have a couple of months in which to propose resolutions, from which several are selected to be debated during the conference. The format of SLN in 2021 in still under review and announcements will be made as soon as possible

Time and venue, application and registration:

http://www.ecolint.ch/student-life/students-league-nations

WWF Suisse

Le WWF Suisse et ses sections cantonales s’engagent pour une vie en harmonie entre les êtres humains et leur environnement. Sa protection et sa défense sont au cœur de nos actions. Car le WWF c'est aussi, et surtout, une histoire d'êtres humains. Nous agissons près de chez vous, grâce notamment aux membres et aux bénévoles. Chaque région propose une grande variété d'activités et d'évènements comme des clean up, des plantations de haies, des entretiens de biotopes ou encore des Pandathlons. Vous aimez filmer et vulgariser la protection de l’environnement en stories ? Le WWF recherche aussi à alimenter son compte Instagram ! Retrouvez toutes nos activités sur wwf-ouest.ch/benevolat

Xpatria Junior Volunteers group - on campus

Hi everyone! We are the Xpatria Junior Volunteers group here at Ecolint. Our aim is to gather a team of dedicated and passionate students (specially y12’s) for continuous support for Lebanon after the explosion on the Beirut port on the 4th of august. You do not have to be of Lebanese origin to participate! One of our goals is to create an international group of students that will benefit from each other's experience in order to come up with innovative ways of raising funds and awareness. If you are interested in joining the committee please contact (Yasma Janoudi) yasma.janoudi@learning.ecolint.ch

School Garden - project @ LGB

The project I am proposing is for a group of CAS students to assist in the development and maintenance of the School Garden situated between the Middle School and the Grand Batiment. Ther garden, or le Potager, has been five years in the making and has provided a rich resource for outdoor education and a haven of calm at the centre of the school.

Much of the maintenance over the past couple of years has been performed by myself and a small Gardening Club on Wednesday afternoon, and of course by various teachers and their classes. Like all gardens there comes a time for some serious renovation work as the purpose of the site evolves. It would be wonderful to broaden the engagement particularly with 2024 approaching. That should give a good idea of the timetable I envisage for much of the work.

I would like to invite a handful of interested students to meet with myself to discuss the possibility of being involved in:

· The construction of new, more manageable compost bays using pallets and other materials sourced from the school in the spirit of recycling

· The construction of raised beds that would offer greater access to all students

· General maintenance duties that any busy garden requires

There are other possible projects envisaged that should contribute to the well-being and future of the garden. In the initial stages we must find suitable times for myself and anyone interested to work together. I believe it is an opportunity that is ideally suited to achieving the goals of CAS

Please feel free to contact me directly so that we can move forward with the project.

Very best wishes

Alan Walsh

alan.walsh@ecolint.ch

Bien dans ma ville - national Clean-up Day

Le CLAFG & l’Association Ma Ville Jardin sont heureux de vous inviter à des actions éco-sportives dans le cadre de la Journée Nationale Clean-Up qui aura lieu le 17 septembre sur la Plaine de Plainpalais et le 18 septembre sur la Place des Nations. Le but de ces actions est de promouvoir la pratique quotidienne des activités comme le plogging ou la marche contre les déchets, notamment pour leurs effets bénéfiques à la fois sur la santé de l’être humain et sur l’environnement. Notre souhait est d’apporter une contribution active à la qualité de vie et au sentiment de bien-être dans nos communes.

Nous serons honorées de votre présence pendant la cérémonie d’ouverture des actions et vous invitons à adresser quelques paroles de bienvenue et d’encouragement aux participants des actions.

La Journée Nationale Clean-Up est intégrée au mouvement international "Let's Do it", fondé en 2008, qui s’investit dans le monde entier par des actions de nettoyage contre les décharges sauvages. Plus de 180 pays y participent parmi lesquels la Suisse joue un rôle important. Nous serions ravies de pouvoir vous offrir cette opportunité de participer au grand mouvement national « pour une Suisse et un Monde propre ».

Nous sommes heureuses de vous y inviter et espérons vivement pouvoir vous rencontrer personnellement à nos deux lieux de rencontres :

- sur la Plaine de Plainpalais, 17 septembre, 09 :00-17 :00

- sur la Place des Nations, 18 septembre, 09 :00-17 :00

De nombreuses activités, destinées aux membres de votre famille, à vos collègues et amis seront proposées.

Des actions éco-sportives seront organisées en groupes de 7-10 personnes, accompagnées par des coaches sportif.

Vous trouverez sur le site https://mavillejardin.org toutes les informations utiles et vous pouvez vous inscrire pour participer aux actions en utilisant le lien suivant : https://mavillejardin.org/national-clean-up-day-2021/?lang=fr

Peace Talks Club - join the club!

The Peace Talks Club is a club in which students discuss ways in which peace can be brought about globally non-destructively on an interdisciplinary scale by watching previous peace talks, starting debates and giving presentations. In September the founders of the club are attending the Geneva Peace Talks in the UN and students are able to watch this presentation if they so wish to. This is a club for people interested in conflict resolution, and want inspiration on how to make a difference in what they truly care about. Some topics brought up last year were racism in educational institutions, particularly the (often) highly selective curriculum, the innateness of capitalism, and attempted definitions of peace. We sincerely hope likeminded people will join us this year.

Contact heloise.hughes@learning.ecolint.ch