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CFL Lunch & Lead: Turning Hopes Into Reality
From Center for Leadership Director Kate Parker-Burgard:
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Imagine yourself as a child fleeing your home because you weren’t safe and then finding yourself moving around to foreign countries where you don’t know the language. Students at St. Luke’s School were able to hear one woman’s story of her family’s flight from Iran during the revolution. Shiva Sarram, a St. Luke’s parent, vividly describes leaving behind everything—toys on the floor, laundry in the hamper, and food in the cupboard—because she thought her family would soon return. Forty years later, she still hasn’t gone back.
Sarram’s experience with the upheaval and devastation of war inspired her to establish the Blossom Hill Foundation. The organization “funds innovative ideas to help children affected by conflict in the Middle East.” Through the Blossom Hill Foundation, programs established in refugee communities address education, technology, job training, and child development.
Ms. Sarram was invited to speak with Upper School students as part of the Center for Leadership’s student-run Lunch & Lead series.
View the photo gallery from this event.
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St. Luke’s School is a secular (non-religious), private school in New Canaan, CT for grades 5 through 12 serving over 40 towns in Connecticut and New York. Our exceptional academics and diverse co-educational community foster students’ intellectual and ethical development and prepare them for top colleges. St. Luke’s Leading with Humanity curriculum builds the commitment to serve and the confidence to lead.
