Students Organize Bake Sale and Raise $45 for the American Red Cross

December 20, 2010: As part of their Advisory Community Project, five East-West students organized a charity bake sale and raised $45 in one class period. The money will be donated to the American Red Cross. Joanna Song, Jessica Lei, Karen Xu, LeSa Nan, and Saeeda Goodman baked or purchased all the items and hosted the [...]

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Ms. Pechersky’s 10th grade Academy organizes a clothing drive

This school year, every Academy participated in a community service project of their choice. Ms. Pechersky’s 10th grade Academy students discussed many opportunities and decided to organize a clothing drive to help people in need. During several months, they worked to mobilize the East –West community and have as many donations of gently worn clothes [...]

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East-West Collects 1,500 Pounds of Food for City Harvest

In just five days, the students and staff of the East-West School of International Studies collected 1,500 pounds of non-perishable food for City Harvest, in honor of Kids Can Help Week. Although it has grown quickly since it opened five years ago, there are only 586 students in this small 6-12 international studies school in [...]

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