Archive for March, 2009
Vets Offer Students a View of Animal Care
0 Comments Published by DJacoby March 31st, 2009 in Children, Education.Sheba Mohankumar created a project in the SELP program that allowed high school students to get an opportunity to find out about what it would be like to be a vet. Mohankumar also got an article published in the Lansing State Journal(of Michigan) about the project. The article, which is reprinted below, can also be [...]
Residents Beautify Lake Garden
0 Comments Published by Julia Taylor March 24th, 2009 in Environment.Sunik Kand, a senior employee at a Bangalore information technology company, created a project in the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership Programme to clean up an abandoned lake and garden and convert it into a park with a walking track. The local government has now taken on the project. The notable India Times newspaper [...]
Dancing, Breakfast, Benefit Cancer Research
0 Comments Published by Julia Taylor March 17th, 2009 in Artistic and Creative, Fund Raising, Health and Wellness.Over £1,000 were raised for cancer research at a U.K. dance event, thanks to the SELP project of Monne Whyte-Macpheson. The following article appeared in The Express newspaper on February 13th.
Cha-cha-cha raises cancer cash
Breakfast with a kick was the order of the day in Windsor at the weekend.
New Windsor Community Association came alive [...]
Homes for 18 Year Old Foster ‘Children’
0 Comments Published by DJacoby March 9th, 2009 in Humanitarian.Yvonne Evans’ project in Landmark’s SELP program involves providing places to live for foster children who turn 18 but who have no place to live. According to Evans, over half of all foster care children who turn 18 have no place to live and a quarter of them eventually end up in prison. Watch the [...]