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.

IH Sabadell donates textbooks to Africa

May 21 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 donated by students IH Sabadell donated both a children’s textbook and €1.

The final result … IH Sabadell will be sending over 250 textbooks to DevelopAfrica as well as an additional €250!

IH Vancouver’s candy gram and crepe sale

May 21 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

May 21 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

May 21 2012

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

May 21 2012

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

May 21 2012

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

May 21 2012

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

May 21 2012

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

May 21 2012

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

May 21 2012

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

May 21 2012

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 21 2012

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 21 2012

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 21 2012

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 21 2012

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 21 2012

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 21 2012

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 21 2012

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 Beirut create Easter baskets for charity

May 21 2012

Last Easter, on 21 April 2011, IH Beirut organised a competition to decorate Easter baskets in their classes. The idea was to ask students to bring food, Easter goodies or any other essentials to fill the baskets.

Each class decorated their own baskets, which all…
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IH Whistler’s campaign for Haiti

May 21 2012

After a devastating earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, IH Whistler leapt into action and started a fundraising campaign for the victims of the disaster. They gave agents who booked with the school the option to donate some, or all, of their commission to the Haiti earthquake…
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IH Viseu teachers cycle 10,000 miles for charity

May 21 2012

Huw and Carolyn Thomas, teachers from IH Viseu, embarked on an epic 10,000 mile tandem bike ride across North America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe in August 2010 and are still pedalling! Their aim is to raise money for a disaster relief charity called ShelterBox, which Huw…
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IH London provides a teacher for homeless charity

May 21 2012

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 21 2012

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 21 2012

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 21 2012

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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