Our aim is to spread awareness and generate action to prevent and end abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated. Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people in over 150 countries.
Meeting Day: H-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 292
Leaders: Theodor_Hutter@fis.edu and Karlrasmus_Byskov@fis.edu
Our aim is to create musical performances in order to entertain the residents of our local care homes and to provide lasting memories and connections for the residents.
Meeting Day: H-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in the band room or room 168
Leaders: Heejin_Lee@fis.edu and Kefei_Cheng@fis.edu
2CAA's mission is to bring joy, companionship, and support to seniors who are isolated and lonely. Through our dedicated efforts. We aim to make a positive impact on their lives by providing visits, virtual connection and engaging activities. We are committed to fostering intergenerational relationships that enrich both the lives of the seniors we serve and the members of our club. By interacting with old people with warm hearts, we aim to reduce loneliness of the elderly and increase their sense of ally. Together, we strive to create a compassionate and inclusive community where seniors feel valued, respected, and loved.
Meeting Day: A-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 352
Leaders: Jimin_Ryu@fis.edu and Riku_Shinoda@fis.edu
The Clean Water Initiative aims to improve the quality of life of underprivileged people in impoverished societies through the provision of sustainable water sources and sanitation.
Meeting Day: D-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 288
Leaders: Henry_Wilde@fis.edu and Clio_Lepore@fis.edu
A Changemaker, is a person, child, adult, student, teacher... EVERYONE, who works to make the world a better place. They take actions to change the world, whether it is a small action like saying thank you, or something larger like creating an organization. Changemakers actively learn and practice skills for change, seek to conceptually understand this systemic complex world, and build their own character traits to do so . Together we can make a big difference!
Meeting Day: Every Tuesday
Time/Place: At 19:00 on Google Meet
Leaders: changemakers@fis.edu
The Climate and Sustainability Club aims to raise awareness for various local and international environmental problems, including global warming, and support global initiatives financially through fundraising. We also aim to improve the carbon footprint and waste of our school and its surroundings.
Meeting Day: Every Tuesday
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 337
Leaders: Alina_Suga@fis.edu and Lilly_Neubuerger@fis.edu
Our aim is to promote equality, raise awareness, and fight for LGBTQ rights through a safe space.
Meeting Day: Every A/B/C-Day
Time/Place: A-Day at 11:40 in rm. 252, B-Day at 12:30 in room 252, C-Day at 10:30 in rm. 252
Leaders: Kate_Skarda@fis.edu and Ian_Takats@fis.edu
To raise awareness of the inequalities many girls and women face around the world and inspire action to be taken, help adolescent girls in developing countries gain access to education, health services, and safety and involve the local community.
Meeting Day: Every G-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 366
Leaders: Sofia_Rangelpary@fis.edu and Vama_Kothari@fis.edu
The HIV Aids awareness group strives to educate and address the stigma around the condition of HIV/Aids. We do not only educate but also raise money to dedicate it to the Camillians center (a children’s home in Thailand) and more specifically towards medication crucial for their welfare. The Camillians Center is a foster home for children who suffer from HIV/Aids and lost their parents to the illness. The HIV/Aids awareness group raises money through the bake sales they coordinate, buying handcrafted items that the kids make and then reselling them to raise even more money.
Meeting Day: B-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 362
Leaders: Luise_Orben@fis.edu and Allegra_Herden@fis.edu
I-cap aims to promote peace in our world. We hope to spread awareness for peace in war-torn areas. We also strive to find ways to spread peace within the FIS community so that students can leave a positive and peaceful footprint in today’s society.
Meeting Day: C-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 329
Leaders: Jullien_Rittervidal@fis.edu and Philip_Boerner@fis.edu
In Vivo: Animal Testing's mission is to educate and spread awareness in our FIS community about animal testing expressed through the arts. This will allow our community to sympathize with the animals being used for testing in labs with the realization of the power that our decision making holds.
Meeting Day: B-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 176
Leaders: Seoyoon_Lee@fis.edu and Sehyun_Park@fis.edu
Our mission is to aid, advocate for and fundraise for local animal organizations and shelters in the Taunus area, supplying them with donations of supplies and our services.
Meeting Day: E-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 352
Leaders: Taeyeon_Kim@fis.edu and Nuria_Jakob@fis.edu
The Kalahari Group focuses on raising awareness and funds to support the disadvantaged rural communities of the Moshaweng valley in the Kalahari Desert. We aim to give individuals of these communities the tools needed for success in their future aspirations. The group works with people ranging from young kids to adults and aims to share education and learning.
Meeting Day: B-Day
Time/Place: 12:00 in the auditorium
Leaders: Luise_Dresig@fis.edu and Finnegan_Cuming@fis.edu
Help primary and upper school students develop new skills by interacting with one another in a playful and academic setting.
Meeting Day: F-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 186
Leaders: Leah_Charter@fis.edu, Audrey_odonnell@fis.edu and Avery_Gilliam@fis.edu
Oceans Aware advocates for saving the ocean and marine animals. It aims to do this through educating students about ocean pollution and the various footprints we are creating. Our goal is to incorporate art, including art exhibitions, as a way to raise awareness to the public.
Meeting Day: F-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 359
Leader: Anna_Hohenacker@fis.edu and Josephina_Wann@fis.edu
Operation Smile aims to raise awareness and funds to provide surgical resources and support to children who will have cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries in remote areas of the world.
Meeting Day: D-Day
Time/Place: 10:30 Room S.326
Leaders: Hoyeong_Lee@fis.edu and Heejae_Jung@fis.edu
Peace of Mind is dedicated to raising awareness about mental health issues, helping to educate students about such issues and destigmatizing them. Specifically among students in the FIS community in order to promote a positive and accepting environment.
Meeting Day: Every C-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 364
Leaders: Ferdinand_Hutter@fis.edu and Thomas_Threthewey@fis.edu
AdvisorsThe Peer Educators is a small group of Grade 10-12 students, who speak to younger grade levels (Grades 2-9) throughout the year in Extended Homeroom. We speak to students about a variety of topics including relationships, drinking, peer pressure, friendships and digital citizenship.
Meeting Day: A-Day
Time/Place: During lunch in room 376
Advisors: Zina_sawabini@fis.edu and Christopher_Wilcox@fis.edu
The Peer Tutoring Network is a student-run organization founded in 2017 that provides free tutoring to other students within our school community. Our goal is to provide a strong network of reliable, honest and service-minded students who are available to tutor and guide each other through subject matters of need.
Meeting Day: A-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 376
Leaders: Dayeon_Ka@fis.edu and Tianchang_Xue@fis.edu
"Everybody deserves a chance," is the Poland Drives motto. With an annual visit, we as a service group are dedicated to supporting and improving a children's home through fundraising campaigns and donations. We aim to form relationships with the children showing them love, care, and support, things they are unable to experience from family. At this point, our goal is to support and further improve their living conditions including renovating multiple spaces of the care home.
Meeting Day: Tuesdays
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 326
Leaders: Anna_Titz@fis.edu and Vera_Sarstedt@fis.edu
Our mission is to work with outside groups and organisations in order to raise awareness about the lives in refugees in our surrounding community and aiding them in any way that we can.
Meeting Day: E-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in Room S. 305
Leaders: James_Roesch@fis.edu, Agatha_Beck@fis.edu and Xi_Li@fis.edu
Our aim is to educate the youth about the importance of forest in our current climate crisis, as well as direct action in our local forests.
Meeting Day: H-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in Room 362
Leaders: Arjun_Bhonsle@fis.edu and Laurence_Mostert@fis.edu
Our mission is to raise awareness and support for the Shanti Bhavan project, which aims to provide quality education and transform the lives of underprivileged children in India.
Meeting Day: B and E Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 293
Leaders: Alexander_Frijlink@fis.edu
Our mission is to give every student at FIS an easy opportunity to share their opinion and concerns on matters affecting the school and advocating said issues to the relevant people. We work towards dissolving the concerns put forward by students throughout the school, and provide opportunities for students to improve their well-being, social and academic situation at school.
Meeting Day: F-Day
Time/Place: At 11:00 in room 368
Leaders: Tianchang_Xue@fis.edu
Our mission is to provide the FIS community an engaging and fun experience from FIS athletic events, as well as ensuring athletes have a memorable season that allows them to continue their passion for sports.
Meeting Day: B-Day
Time/Place: At 12:00 in room S.211
Leaders: Ji-Woo_Jun@fis.edu, Victoria_Schiller@fis.edu and Sara_Smith@fis.edu
Our mission is to help build an understanding about people around the world that do not have access to a toilet. We strive to help fund toilets in countries that need them. This allows privacy especially for women and girls.
Sanitation- another focus this year
Meeting Day: H-Day
Time/Place: At 12:45 in room 292
Leaders: Caitlen_Cutter@fis.edu and Carissa_Demera@fis.edu
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We strive to protect the forests that are located in West Coast Canada by adopting pieces of the land allowing threatened animals, plants and the people that live there to thrive. Additionally, we are also trying to get more involved within our own community and environment.
Meeting Day: D-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room S. 316
Leaders: Xiang_Mao@fis.edu, Carolina_Soares@fis.edu and Laura_Capranicocaetani@fis.edu
The service project Animal Rescue is aiming to raise awareness and attempting to save unnecessarily mistreated and mutilated animals. We will be focusing on different areas of ecosystems and animal groups, with a focus on raising funds to support the 'Save the Elephants' organization and their education programs.
Meeting Day: A-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 364
Leaders: Angelo_Choi@fis.edu, Sophia_Kuhnke@fis.edu and Emily_Libert-Schmauss@fis.edu
Our mission is to educate the student body on social issues surrounding cultural awareness and racial injustice in order to achieve a more welcoming, comfortable and safe environment for all students regardless of their background.
Meeting Day: G-Day
Time/Place: At 11:45 in room 347
Leaders:Lylie_Kress@fis.edu and Galaxie_Milam@fis.edu
We aim to raise awareness about hunger and malnutrition around the community. In addition to that, we aim to make a global as well as local impact by supporting the Frankfurter Tafel and the World Food Programme.
Meeting Day: C-Day
Time/Place: At 10:30 in room 277
Leaders: Enqi_Zhang@fis.edu or Rossieana_Grouev@fis.edu