Students from the Sœur-Emmanuelle de Vasles school will hold a Christmas market on Friday, December 13 from 6:30 p.m., at the Alpagerie room. It will continue at 8 p.m. after the show offered to parents.
The ecodelegates, who will man the stand, voted for all of the winnings to be donated to the Initiatives coeur association. The school's students follow the boat that this association has entered in the Vendée Globe and whose skipper is Samantha Davies. Heart Initiatives is a partner of Mécénat cardiac surgery, which allows children with heart defects to be operated on in Europe when this is impossible in their country.
“The objectives of this project are numerousexplains Marilyne Jeudi, the director. It is first of all an awareness of solidarity action. We watched very moving short films on the journey of operated children. Thanks to an educational file and videos and reports produced by Jamy Gourmaud, more academic concepts are addressed. » Geography, of course, since the students follow the progress of “their” boat on maps and the globe, singing with In the heart of the oceanmanual work and the creation of boat models, etc.
Samantha Davies, who is aiming for the top 10 in the solo race, is currently thirteenth. Each click on the Initiatives coeur site brings €1 to patronage from sponsors.
