Community Outreach Framework & Activities

The Canadian International School of Singapore is very proud of our students, teachers, and parents for their commitment to the wider community. We know that learning outside of the classroom and helping others is an important part of becoming responsible global citizens. Our efforts have an impact on the world as well as ourselves.
	We have a long history of supporting the disadvantaged in Cambodia . For over ten years, students and teachers have been holding Handicraft Silk Sales and raising funds to build houses for Janne Ritskes , the Canadian founder of Tabitha. We now support health and education programs there as well. A group of committed high school students travel to Cambodia each year to undertake these various service projects. Their commitment extends far beyond the week they spend away from home.
	Kids for Kids works to support the PYP attitudes of empathy, cooperation and commitment. This group of grade 4-5 students meets once a week to plan ways of taking action at CIS and in other parts of the world. Currently, they have a relationship with students at a local school in Bintan Indonesia and raise funds to help support this community. Kids for Kids travel there to participate in a variety of cooperative, fun activities with their counterparts.
	After the devastation of the tsunami in 2004, CIS held a wildly successful walkathon to raise funds for affected families in Southeast Asia . This was our first step in joining an IBO partnership to rebuild a school along the south coast of Sri Lanka . A group of teachers have delivered resource materials and provided ESL training at the Hegalla MV school. For safety reasons, our trip to Sri Lanka for high school students is presently on hold.
	Locally, students and teachers are proud to donate money and participate in a yearly worldwide cancer fundraiser, the Marathon of Hope in memory of Canadian hero, Terry Fox. We also join forces with the Canadian Association to collect teddy bears for hospitalized children in December and raise funds for needy children with critical and chronic illnesses.