By Rémi Fakhri, MUN Impact St Charles, France,
Saint Charles is deeply concerned about service work, especially about helping the others which is an action that fits in the third (well-being) and fourth (quality education) SDGs.
Concerning the third goal, some students visit seniors in a retirement home and spend time with them to make loneliness crumble a bit for a moment. Others supervise and secure people in a handicap situation (usually autistics or with Dow’s syndrome).
Then, the main action done related to the fourth goal is the organisation of support sessions in maths for students in need of further explanations. I personally give some maths lessons at school, but also private piano lessons to beginners.
Helping people in need also includes to achieve food security and end poverty, at least for a winter. This is why the school organises every November a collection for the local foodstuff bank; we have to stand at the entrance of supermarkets and ask people who enter if they can buy one little extra thing to eat. After collecting the food, the association takes over the operation and distributes the food all the winter to those who are concerned.
In addition, some students and I bought toys, asked the rest of the school to bring their old ones in good condition at school and gave them all to the association Restos Du Coeur. Other students for instance have sold cakes in the school a few times this year to raise funds for UNICEF.
Finally, Saint Charles has a partnership with Gako in Rwanda and help financially a care home there by raising funds. This is done by two annual Rice Bowls during which students only eat a rice bowl, and the money normally going to the school canteen is spent to this care home.
