CIG | | The Community Involvement Group (CIG) is the umbrella organization for all charity work at GSIS. It provides a forum between the different charity-related organizations to ensure maximum cooperation, in addition to providing support for individual students or classes wishing to run charity projects. The CIG is also responsible for coordinating whole-school efforts, such as fundraising or goods collection activities. | | Recent events | Well done to the Primary School for raising over $152,000 for the Earthquake and Cyclone Appeal.
| Upcoming Events | $13,950 has been raised for the cyclone appeal. TRUNKAID students' Pizza day raised around $1,000 which they have agreed to donate to Medecins Sans Frontieres for the Cyclone Nargis Appeal. Prefects have also added $1,050 to the appeal from the Knockout. Most of the donations have come from the generous donations of parents.
UPDATE ON THE WORK OF MSF IN MYNAMAR
Aerial view of damages
Cyclone Nargis information
They plan further fund-raising to help the disaster relief effort, including a student-staff Cricket Match.
| GSIS has raised $32,470 for Red Cross so far for the China Earthquake appeal. In addition to the spare change collection we thank the GSD Drama group's performance of "Eine ODysee" which raised $11,100. 7B raised $2100 from the bake sales on Thursday. 6B also raised over $1600. 7D raised $1760 from their bakesale.
Sichuan Quake information
Thank you to all those who donated goods for the Crossroads Earthquake Appeal.
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18th June
ESD charity lunch for the Earthquake Appeal
24th June
CIG meeting for all student leaders.
28th June
Chai Wan Baptist Church flag Day
May-June
Pages: Book collection for a Philippine Primary school
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Activities since September 2007
13th June: We were rewarded by a visit from Daniel and Manuela from Child's Dream who talked to the Y10 Economics class on how NGOs identify the needs and allocate scarce resources to their projects and updated us on the situation in Myanmar.
12th June: Thank you to all students who helped to collect blankets, sleeping bags, toiletries, new clothes and kitchen utensils for the Crossroads Earthquake Appeal. The used clothes donated were sent to St Barnabas shelter for the Homeless.
11th May: Six students took part in the "Push for Rights" Walkathon by HK Committee on Children's Right to raise awareness of Children's Rights in Hong Kong
8th May:$3,000 was raised for the Thalassaemia Foundation during Dress Jeans Day.
29th and 30th April Assembly by Room to Read. Thanks to the hard work of Laura, Jill and Mrs Hirzel, the school has raised a staggering US$10,000 (78,000 HKD) for Room to Read to build a library in Laos. Thank you to the Music department and all the students and staff who helped to make the collection during their concerts such a success.
March and April Christian Action homework help and flag day:Vanessa Ng and Jasmine Wee have been busy organising the EdExchange students teaching English Programme with the refugees from Christian Action. If you can help over the summer holidays please let us know. Thank you to those who helped with the flag day in March and the jewelry stall in April.
26th March: Thanks to all the volunteers for the Flag day for St Barnabas Shelter for the Homeless Society.
February:Well done to Mrs Turnbull's 8D class for organising the Bake sale, raising $1000 for Make a Wish. The donation will be used for granting a wish to a 17 year old boy -Tai with Limb Gridle Muscular Dystrophy (a genetic disorder) to travel to Japan this June.
25th-29th February:Tremendous effort by Heather Pickerrell and her STAND team for highlighting the plight of refugees in Darfur.
23rd February:Thank you Ms Stevenson and students from Interact for helping with the Yang Memorial Methodist Church flag day.
22nd February: Graham Radvin from Summerbridge was delighted by the enthusiastic response to his talk on helping to teach underprivileged children in Hong Kong during the summer. If you are still interested in taking part please email Graham at graham@summerbridge.org.hk.
15th February: Congratulations to the winners of this year's GSIS Idol. The evening raised $20,000 for Christian Action, $4,600 for Room to Read and $4,600 for Unicef appeal to help the victims in China's winter storm.
14th February: Thank you to the CIG and Interact team for helping to organise and deliver roses to students at Valentines.
2nd February: A team of Interact students braved the coldest day this year as volunteers for the Methodist Church Flag Day. On the same day another group of students helped to deliver New Years presents to the elderly at Tai Wo estate with the help of the HKSKH Tai Wo Neighbourhood Elderly Center with the $3,000 donation towards the presents.
*24th & 25th January 2008: Miss SIxty clothes sales raised over $3,000 for the Salvation Army.
*24th December In true Christmas spirit Interact members helped to take children from Po Leung Kuk to Ocean Park at Christmas Eve.
*21st December Members of EdExchange students worked with Christian Action to organise a trip toThe Peak with the refugees.
*3rd-17th December: Thank you to everyone who donated new sports and music equipment to Crossroads Christmas Gift appeal for children in need.
*3rd-17th December: Eight large boxes of warm adult cloths were collected for St Barnabas Society for the Homeless. Special thanks to the anonymous donor who provided new shirts and jumpers from their factory warehouse.
*3rd-17th December: Christian Action would like to thank all parents and students who gave warm clothes and toys for Christmas.
*1st December:Thank you to all those who supported the charity stalls at the Christmas Bazaar.
*30th November: Well done Vivian Tong and all the students who helped to raise money for the World's Aids Day
*Thank you to Mr Moon and 8B for raising $11,400 for St Barnabas shelter for the homeless
*Well done to all participants in The Race. EPC raised $16,000 for charity
*Thank you to all students and staff, particularly Miss Crouch for their tremendous effort during the International Evening that helped to raise $22,000 for Christian Action and Xinning Children's Home.
*Thanks to Jonathan Sit and all the volunteers who helped to set up for The Stride for a Cure Sponsored walk on 4th November raising $3600 for the Hong Kong Cancer Fund.
*Dress Pink Day and the Halloween dress special day raised $1500 for the Hong Kong Breast Cancer campaign
*Tremendous effort from Elizabeth Biddle, Lisa Lee, Piya Samtani, Victoria Kung, Hsiao Ling Ong and Bernice Shang for their hard work and good humour during their teaching practise at Mae Nam Khun School in Chiang Mai. We cannot thank Child's Dream enough for giving us the opportunity to experience life in rural Thailand.
*Well done all sailors for their efforts in the 24hr Dinghy Race at Hebe Haven raising $10,000 for the Children's Cancer Fund.
*Thank you to Betty and the Year 12 students for helping to collect $2000 for Orbis Pin Day
*$7000 was raised during Dress Twin Day for the Community Chest, thanks to all those who took part.
*Congratulations Lion House for winning the Trivia Quiz Night with 29 points. $2766 was raised for the SOS Children's Village in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
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