Christoph Schmitter in JLSS
Christoph Schmitter, President of SVS (Schweizer Verein Für Die
Schneller Shulen in Nahen Osten) arrived to JLSS on Wednesday 28
October, 2011. It had been over two years since Mr. Schmitter last
visited JLSS. There was a lot of catching up to do with recent
developments in our school. He had meetings with the director, SVS
volunteer Roland Hausler, and other members of staff.
SVS for the previous two years had been providing our school with a
grant that enables us to have a part-time psychologist to support staff
of the boarding department. It will continue with this project this
year.
Although the grant that SVS provided JLSS towards the running budget has
been enormously reduced, we hope SVS will soon be able to restore this
grant to its previous levels as SVS has been the second supporting body
of JLSS with EVS from the very beginnings of Schneller Schools. The
grants we receive towards the main budget are the backbone that enables
us to provide totally free care, education, and vocational training to
all our boarding students, and big scholarship grants to most of our day
students.
Mr. Schmitter returned to Switzerland early Friday morning November
4.
We express our thanks to Mr. Schmitter for his visit and commitment to
support our school.