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PTSA Outreach

Community Service at AISR does not only begin and end with the Creativity, Action and Service Program. The PTSA has three Outreach Officers this year, who will be working closely with the CAS Coordinator on several projects. Some of these projects involve the whole school and have therefore given the CAS Program true meaning and have enabled the whole AISR family to turn their eyes towards life outside the school.

AISR Thanksgiving Drive

For several years running, AISR has used the Thanksgiving period as a time of reflection and giving. Last year, all of the students, parents and teachers collected gloves and socks in a “warm hands, warm feet” campaign to support the Havenzicht homeless shelter. In addition, money was raised by various CAS activities, and students from elementary grades made beautiful drawings. Middle School students put Thanksgiving parcels together. These included warm gloves and socks, the elementary drawings and chocolate. With the money raised, the ingredients for a hearty soup were purchased, and Middle School students made the soup, which was served up by the High School CAS students in the evening. The giving coincided closely with the Dutch Sinterklaas festival, and was very appropriate for that time of year. This giving campaign, which involves so much more than just giving is an example of the Community Service at AISR.

Fund Raising

Further, CAS students over the last two years have spearheaded all sorts of fundraisers. In recent years, over €1,500 was raised to support the Bülent Türker schools in Turkey, which were erected to help orphaned victims of the earthquakes there. Two students organized a concert and photographic exhibition to bring this about, while members of the High School Student Council helped with the tickets and the reception. More music, in the form of music lessons given by a CAS student, helped to raise almost €1,000 for the purchase of an 8 volume book on Plastic Surgery for AMREF (African Flying Doctors). Furthermore, the money collected by recycling the "Pet Fles" bottles at school, all go towards helping to support AMREF Flying Doctors, as do all funds raised by Brown Coin Drives.

Read to Grow

In the spring, books are collected annually for the READ TO GROW organization, which sends books to areas of need all over the English, French and Spanish speaking world. The whole school joins in to support this mammoth effort, and AISR has once been the recipient of the prize for collecting the most books.

MamaCash

More recently, we have had contact with the MAMACASH organization. Mama Cash supports women's groups that blaze the trails with self-initiated projects.

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