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MAY 2005

Trevor Day School Students’ Entrepreneurship Raises $8,500 for Tsunami Relief

Recently, students in the first through fifth grade of Trevor Day School hosted a Tsunami Relief Bazaar that raised over $8,500 for the Galle Housing project, created to address the need to re-build over 7,000 houses destroyed by the Tsunami in Galle, a city on the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The bazaar is the culmination of a unique 3-month entrepreneurship learning experience whose sophisticated concepts of cost margins, market pricing, sales and marketing the students applied to address a charitable need.

“We are extremely pleased about the outcome of this project,” said Lisa Alberti, Division Director of the Elementary School. According to Ms. Alberti, the bazaar addressed the students’ desire to alleviate the devastation in that part of the world. She also said that everything about the bazaar—from the cost of the materials, creation of a market price to the marketing of the event—was student driven.

The students sold a variety of items that included: baked goods, jewelry, books, t-shirts and toys priced from $2-$10. In addition, students wrote letters and drew pictures for children in Sri Lanka. The event concluded with a student-produced presentation to the community about their efforts for Tsunami relief in the last year.

The Galle Housing Project was created as an immediate response by the doctors of the Galle Regional Teaching Hospital, where many of the Tsunami survivors received treatment for their injuries in the weeks following the disaster. The Galle Housing Project is accepting donations through its United States affiliate, LacNet, a 501c3 organization: http://www.theacademic.org/tsunami.#

Trevor Day School is a co-educational nursery through 12th grade school located in Manhattan.  For more information about Trevor, please visit: www.trevor.org

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