Support Students in Snowshoe Challenge for Nepal Service Trip

January 28th, 2010. Posted in Academic News, General News, School Update, Student Life News

Last year's snowshoeing group

A group of five LAS students and two teachers will snowshoe up the Berneuse on February 25th to raise money for a service trip to Nepal. The 6kms trek will begin in Leysin Village (1268m) and end at the summit of La Bernuese (2048m), aiming to simulate the physical challenge and mandatory team work facing them this spring. The Berneuse Snowshoe Challenge is a major event in a series of fundraisers for the 2010 “Nepal Shelter for Life Project.”

During the trip students will provide the poor village of Mugu with clean energy to curb the young mortality rate and to directly better the lives of villagers by installing smokeless stoves and solar panels.

The optional spring break trip is part of our unique curriculum which combines formal study with travel.

The group needs your help!

You can help by pledging upon the team’s successful snowshoe trek to La Berneuse. Their goal is to raise CHF 16′000 toward the overall cost of solar panels, smokeless stoves and their transport by helicopter to the region. Your donation, however small or large, will make small steps towards making the world a more equitable place.

Please feel free to contact Laura Sommariva or Erin Dobson for more information. You can also learn more about the 2010 Nepal Shelter For Life Project by visiting www.las.ch/lifestyle/nepal.html .

Students:

SaraOlivia Granberger (Switzerland)
Richard Goto (USA)
Simon Romano (Mexico)
Swanee Messerli (Switzerland)
Beth Donaldson (Scotland)

Teachers:

Laura Sommariva (Teacher of Mathematics)
Erin Dobson (Teacher of Science)