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
