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International Friendship Group – SWEC – YEPA
Ms Christine Kemp CKemp@isstavanger.no
Congratulations and thanks to the following
students who took part in SWEC’s sponsored walk
in September:
Lucca, Sofia, Olivia, Abby, Victoria, Elena, Rebecca
N, Sophia, Payton, Chase, Tsolaye, Efe, Rebecca W,
Matteo, Michael, Lisa, Colin, Tiree, Allison, Luke,
Robert, Val, Maren, Toby, Kai, Steffeny.
Together they raised an astounding kr 7894 for the
Marine Conservation Society! Well done!!!
of Serendipity. £600 will be sent to OXFAM for
their new campaign “GROW – to fix the food
system, forever”. See OXFAM’s website for more
information.
Thank you to everyone who helped in any way to
make the UN Concert such a huge success. We
had wonderful performances from students and
beautiful music from the Youth Orchestras from The
Netherlands and Stavanger. Kr 6000 has been sent
to SOS Barnebyer for their new project in Tanzania.
See the letter below from SOS Barnebyer Stavanger.
”The project ”Casa Rogaland” in the new SOS
Barneby in Peru is now fully financed. It will have its
official opening in November. We volunteers are quite
happy to reach the goal (NOK 900 000). Two of our
volunteers will join the opening (they pay themselves)
and I will send you pictures. After all, ISS was part
of it!!
So, now the group has committed itself to a new
project! SOS Barnebyer is building a new barneby in
Tanzania. So we will be responsible for financing a
house in this barneby. This time it will cost NOK 1.5
million including 3 years operations. We give ourselves
3 years to fund-raise.”
Another ‘Thank You’ goes to everyone who
contributed goodies to sell at the recent performances
Looking ahead you will see that
IFG and SWEC will continue
to be very busy
during the next
few weeks.
Starting on Tuesday 22nd November SWEC will
be selling Christmas cards during lunch recesses.
Each pack costs kr 20 and contains 4 or 5 cards.
The money raised is sent to the Elisabeth Svendsen
Trust for Children and Donkeys and is used to
finance riding lessons for children with special needs
in five riding centres in the UK.
SWEC have been supporting this charity for many
years and hope that they can again raise enough
money to adopt the 20 donkeys on their list. Riding
lessons using gentle, friendly donkeys benefit special
needs children in many ways and we read many
success stories in the newsletters we receive.
Also at this time of year some primary school classes
make wonderful Gingerbread Houses
which they donate to be raffled by SWEC.
Raffle tickets cost kr 10 for three
– make sure you buy some!
The houses are always amazing
creations and a delight to win!!!
They will be on display in the
28 · The Informer 23 November 2011 www.isstavanger.no