Sunday, May 23, 2010

EcoFest 2010

The Environmental Service Learning Initiative (ESLI) is a non-profit organization that builds environmental curriculum and helps teachers to implement it into lessons in any subject. This organization has been at Galileo Academy for the past two years and your Mom and I, Rai, have been a part of it.
At the end of each year, ESLI hosts an EcoFest to celebrate the great projects completed by ESLI students from all participation high schools in San Francisco. Yesterday was the 2nd annual EcoFest and hundreds turned out to join the green party at Dolores Park in the Mission.
The sad news is that this second EcoFest may also be the last as ESLI has lost its funding for the coming school year. This news was given to us by ESLI staff last week and we're still trying to understand the imbalance in this city that can lead to the closure of powerful and important programs like this one while other less critical and timely initiatives continue, unaffected.

1 comment:

  1. Just one smile from you to the right person Rai and I'll bet they'll start rethinking the funding for ESLI. You know how charming you can be.

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