# Chateau de la Tobler

## Saturday, February 02, 2008

### Action against poverty

This is kind of neat.
As many of you know, I work at an IB school or an International Baccalaureate School. This means that one think we push is to teach the students to be internationally minded and basically, to think beyond their own close world and to take action to help it. That is part of what our big exhibition is every year. Even though, for the last two years, this process has almost pushed me into an early grave, the action the students have been taking has been incredible to watch. All the students had to complete some sort of action associated with poverty. Some worked at a soup kitchen, others participated in a book drive for those without access to books and still other in some sort of Christmas collection of toys for needy children.
The following link is still another way the students participated. A group of six fifth graders came up with the idea and followed it through with the help of their parents and the teachers at school. Many others, kindergarten through fifth grade participated. It was free to attend, but there was a donation box for those who wished to support the charity the students picked out. (The ONE was throughly researched by the students, then the principal and finally the superintendent before the okay was given.) They raised over $1,000.
Kind of neat, huh?
The ONE talent show

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