Charities - CIS Gives Back

Service and Action is one of the pillars of the IB programmes. Internationalism is another. 

We support three main charities at CIS: the Charity Club; the Burmese Refugee Assistance Programme and Team Peru. We also support a number of other charities each year, such as Help Haiti and the shelter for the homeless in Copenhagen.

THE BURMESE REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME (BRAP): Seventeen students will be setting out in July for a second annual trip to work with Burmese refugees in Thailand. The group has an adult supervisor, but is run by the students. Remarkably, for a second year running, they have been able to decline the financial support offered by CIS, having become financially self-sufficient. No one who goes on this journey too (like Team Peru a journey of the mind and the spirit more than just the body), will return the same. One student who went in 2009 and graduated last year is joining the group for a second time this year, having found it such a transformational experience.

TEAM PERU: A group of thirteen students and three teachers set out on 17 March to circle half the globe, to work for two weeks at the home for abused, neglected and handicapped children, Mama Cocha, which was built entirely with money raised by CIS. Team Peru owes a great debt to Ben Ward, who has been a passionate champion of this charity since its inception. This will be the Team’s third bi-annual visit to Peru. It will change the lives of all those participating. We wish them well, thank them for their service and will be able to share their experiences via their blog on the website: www.teamperu.dk Hasta la vista !

CHARITY CLUB: Because this Club is entirely run by students and supports more than one charity, it is not so well known in the school. It is our most venerable charity, being twenty-five years old this year. It supports three main projects: the Micro-credit Project in Ghana (one of the Ghanaians involved was flown over by the Danish state to speak to our students about the project last year); the Nzongomani School in Swaziland and St. Margaret’s Hospice in the UK. Charity Club has just launched their annual lottery at CIS. All proceeds go directly and in full to the projects, with no other costs involved. Tickets can be purchased from Barbara Coyle at reception.