Help Weizmann send a teacher to DC

We are a small Jewish day school in Pasadena, California. Next month, the ten students in our 7th and 8th grade class will take part in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. with the seven 8th grade students from an Islamic school in our area. We are not aware of any other school that provides students with the opportunity to take an interfaith trip like this one.

The two schools have joined together before for music and art projects, and they took a similar trip in 2016. The results have been inspiring. Now, we hope to further foster interfaith connections as students from very different backgrounds join together for flights, meals, lodging at a hotel, sightseeing throughout our nation's capital,  a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a day trip to Philadelphia. 

We are very fortunate that parents have been able to cover the cost of the trip for their children. However, our school did not know about this trip when we budgeted last year, so we did not budget funds to pay for a teacher to travel with the students.

The cost for a teacher will be approximately $2,000. This will cover transportation to and from the airports, hotel accommodations, entrance fees to all attractions, food, and programming by the Close Up organization for the 5-day trip.  

Weizmann has been soliciting funds to help pay for a teacher to attend, and so far we have received $450 in pledges. 

We thank you in advance for any support you can provide. Thank you for believing in the power of interfaith connections beginning at a young age!