International House Action Day

The International House Action Day is an annual celebration of the charitable efforts made by all the schools in the International House network across the globe. It is an opportunity for the schools to pledge their charitable donations for the year ahead, to launch new fundraising campaigns and to tell the network about what they have already achieved.

Contributions do not have to be financial, but can be a donation of time, resources or expertise to help those in need.

IHWO wear Christmas Jumpers for charity

December 18 2012

The IHWO office fully embraced the London craze for cheesy Christmas jumpers by taking part in Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 14th December 2012. Sporting a range of festive knits featuring 3D snowmen, penguins and traditional Nordic patterns in garish colours, the team matched them with some outrageous festive spectacles, earrings, fur hats and tinsel!

All 6 members of staff made a donation to the children’s charity Save the Children which helps protect and support children in 120 countries around the world.

As you can see from the photo above, our ridiculous attire did not impact on the usual feverish office activity and it was very much business as usual at IHWO!

IH Katowice collect toys for children at Christmas

December 18 2012

For the last couple of years now we at International House Katowice have been collecting toys from our students and staff and giving them to children who are being cared for at a local hospital. It brings a smile to their face to see Santa turning up with a sackful of gifts for…
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IH Moscow grow moustaches for Movember

December 18 2012

Movember, as November was previously known, is a month when follically inclined ‘mo bros’ (and their ever supportive ‘mo sistas’) all over the world have the enviable opportunity to grow a moustache to support men’s health.

IH Moscow…
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IH support bracelet making charities in Africa

November 30 2012

IH schools have raised over €7,000 for charities in South Africa through the sale of colourful IH-branded bracelets in countries all around the world.

The initiative was first introduced by IH Cape Town at the Directors’ Conference in South Africa in April 2012. A charity…
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IH Budapest teachers collect clothes for refugees

November 27 2012

As an ongoing charity project, staff members at IH Budapest don’t throw their old clothes away when they don’t need them anymore. Instead, in close cooperation with the Refugee Mission of the Reformed Church of Hungary, they find an easy way to make others happy with…
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IH San Isidro holds a stunning photo auction

July 11 2012

IH Buenos Aires San Isidro have been working this past year in conjunction with Equipo de Trabajo e Investigacion Social (ETIS, http://www.etis.org.ar), providing English classes to people in impoverished areas who wouldn’t normally have access…
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IH Beirut’s Cake Bake

June 25 2012

The IH Beirut Cake Bake fundraising event took place on 7 June, 2012.

Teachers and administrative staff baked cakes and sold them to students on that day. The event was held on the terrace in the open air where students had the chance to buy cakes and socialise with other…
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IH Astana & Almaty introduce Action Day to Kazakhstan!

June 01 2012

A sunny Saturday morning of May, 12 was cheered up by the enthusiastic team of teachers and staff of IH Astana. In less than 4 hours of our Action Day event, the central park became a popular destination for IH students and general public to pay a tribute to those who are in need.
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IH Sabadell donates textbooks to Africa

May 09 2012

This year, for the first time, to celebrate the popular Sant Jordi festival – World Book Day on the 23rd April, IH Sabadell asked students to donate a textbook to send to primary school children in different parts of Africa through the organisation DevelopAfrica. For every textbook…
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IH Vancouver’s candy gram and crepe sale

March 16 2012

IH Vancouver’s annual Valentine’s Day candy-gram event in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation was one of our most successful fundraisers ever.

Students were able to purchase a Valentine’s card for anyone in the school leading up to 14th February.…
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IH Hanoi teachers volunteer at children’s hospital

March 13 2012

Teachers from IH Hanoi jumped at the chance to volunteer to teach young patients at the Central Paediatric Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. The children all suffer from serious and chronic illnesses and cannot attend school like other children.

Since November, teachers from IH…
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IH Santander’s pancake sale, pub quiz and dedicated runners

March 13 2012

Inspired by one of our teachers, Amanda Jones, who is running the local half-marathon to raise money for cancer research (http://www.justgiving.com/amanda-jones12), IH Santander has got into a charitable mood, and are in full-swing…
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IH Ljubljana bake for animal shelter charity

December 23 2011

IH Ljubljana decided to participate in the International House Action Day by organising a fundraising charity bake sale in December. The school staff baked delicious cookies and other pastries which we packed into lovely packages. We raised well over €300 from the staff and students.…
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IH San Jose raises funds for multiple sclerosis

December 20 2011

Inspired by Sarah Clow, a British colleague whose brother was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, teachers at IH San José organised a charity screening of the cult movie ‘Rocky Horror Story’ to celebrate Halloween and raise funds for the Costa Rican MS foundation. …
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IHWO’s Sophie runs 13 miles in charity half marathon

December 02 2011

IHWO’s Sophie Montagne took up the Action Day challenge by entering the Run To The Beat half marathon on 25th September, raising money for the London Air Ambulance.

The 13 mile run started at London’s O2 Arena and took in a loop of East London, finishing through Greenwich…
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Christina Margraf’s 10km run for Cancer Research

July 28 2011

Business Development Manager Christina Margraf kicked off the IHWO office’s charitable efforts for Action Day 2011 with a 10km run in London’s Finsbury Park on 23rd July.

More than 2,000 women took part in the event to raise money for Cancer Research UK - the world’s…
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IH Santander raises money for Spanish earthquake victims

June 16 2011

IH Santander took part in the IH Action Day to raise money for the people of Lorca in the South of Spain, who had recently lost their homes in an earthquake.

They organised a number of events; students could try to beat their classmates at football by shooting from the penalty…
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IH Seville & Cadiz support a charity in Rwanda

June 08 2011

clic International House Seville and Cadiz is continuously involved with Museke, a charity organisation based in Cadiz, which supports some of the most needy children in Rwanda (pictured) and Burundi. Museke provides orphans, or those from very poor families, between the ages of…
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IH New York funds a rap project and an African school

June 03 2011

Every year IH New York donates the value of one CELTA course fee, $2,500, (£1,533) to a worthy educational cause. The donation is designed to help an organization realize a project that they would not otherwise be able to do and to support programs that involve ESL students and…
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IH Buenos Aires teachers built houses for impoverished families

May 31 2011

Two teachers from IH Buenos Aires gave up their weekends last year to volunteer for “Un Techo Para Mi Pais” (UTPMP), a charity which works across South America. UTPMP originally started in Chile in 1997, working with young volunteers across the continent to build emergency…
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IH Jounieh collect bottle tops and plant trees in Lebanon

May 31 2011

In conjunction with the British Embassy Beirut, IH Jounieh are collecting the plastic tops from drinks bottles. This is in support of the local charity Arc de Ciel which raises funds to provide wheelchairs for disabled people throughout Lebanon. One chair requires 500,000 tops.…
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IH Vietnam volunteers are changing lives

May 27 2011

Staff from IH Vietnam-Apollo volunteer on a weekly basis at several HIV orphanages, providing lesson plans and teaching material boxes to untrained volunteer teachers, visiting local shelters for movie mornings using their projector, and holding music nights for the shelter children…
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IH San Sebastian focuses on the environment

May 26 2011

Lacunza-IH San Sebastian donates more than €1,000 every year to various Spanish charities, including the Asociación Contra el Cáncer (AECC), DYA (an ambulance service) and Portal Solidario.

The environment is another of its target areas. Last year Lacunza-IH collected…
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IH Intuition director cycles the full length of the UK

May 26 2011

Norman Renshaw, director of IH Intuition in London, recently finished an epic bike ride that saw him pedal from the most southerly point in the UK to the most northern tip.

Starting at Lands End in Cornwall on 3 May 2011, Norman took 11 days to cover the 1050 mile route,…
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IH Viseu’s 5th sponsored walk

May 24 2011

The IH Viseu Sponsored Walk took place on 21st May with 110 people walking 15km in a round route from the school. In its fifth year, the Viseu walk encourages staff, students, friends, family and total strangers to come together for an afternoon of fresh air, lots of chat (in English!)…
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IH Berlin supports a school in Burkina Faso

May 23 2011

IH Berlin has been raising money to support a small West African school in Tin-Akoff, Burkina Faso, since 1994. Over the years their fundraising has helped pay for a school cook to ensure the children receive one hot meal per day. It has also helped supply all the writing materials…
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IH London provides a teacher for homeless charity

May 20 2011

The IH London Trust started two new charitable campaigns in 2010. The first began in April, when the school set up a project working with the charity CRISIS to provide free English teaching for a year. CRISIS is a UK charity dedicated to ending homelessness by providing essential…
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IH Geneva donates a whopping £17,303

May 18 2011

Over the course of the past year, IH Geneva sent a total of 25,000 CHF (£17,303) to the international aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). They have an agreement whereby money raised in any way by the staff is doubled by the school and sent to MSF. In addition, staff are…
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IH Toronto’s pancake sale

May 11 2011

IH Toronto organised their own fundraising activity to support the victims of the Japan earthquake in March. The school’s staff made traditional Canadian pancakes and sold them with a juice or soda, in exchange for a donation from students.

All the staff were involved…
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Global Charity Auction

May 11 2011

The Directors’ Conference annual charity auction raised a whopping €8,000 for host school IH Valencia’s chosen charity Fundación Pequeño Deseo on 2nd May 2011.

Each school director was asked to bring an item from their own country that could be raffled or…
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