Read past articles of some of our awesome Streetfront alumni!
Meet the Runner Series highlights how marathon running produces great Street2Peak participants. The students profiled here are Harmony Santori, Cody Price, Abdi Ahmed, Emily Lloyd, and Sierra Sidwell.
Today Streetfront Alternative had a table at Car-free Day on Commercial Drive. We received some donations and spoke to many wonderful people who seemed genuinely interested in our Stree2Peak Project: Mt. Kilimanjaro Trek. We look forward to some neat support ideas and donations in the near future!
Don’t forget to support us by donating at www.street2peak.com/donate/
Trevor wrote this excellent article in the Spring 2014 BC Alternative Education Association newsletter about our goal to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro with 18 Inner-city students. It sums up well who are students are and why they are worth the effort and support.
Here is an article by Frank Larue published in the First Nations Drum Newspaper (May 2014 edition) about our Mt. Kilimanjaro Trek as it pertains to our Aboriginal youth participants.
Our students were the underdogs in the high school tug-of-war contest, going against schools that had hundreds of students to choose from. We didn’t win but we had a lot fun and we showed our true grit! Now to challenge the same students to a long-distance race!
Hours after running with the half and full marathon students Trevor spoke on The World This Week – Weekend Edition show with host Drex.
Trevor was asked to speak with Jody Vance at Breakfast Television on May 6, 2014 about the Street2Peak Project’s Mt. Kilimanjaro Trek, the Charity Run and Streetfront Alternative School. As usual Trevor did a tremendous job conveying the essence of this project!
Watch the segment on our StreetfrontAlt YouTube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe so you can see more video’s as we move closer to the summit!
Students Alannah and Brandon speak to the media at Street2Peaks Project media launch event outside our humble portable on May 1, 2014 to help raise funds for our Mt. Kilimanjaro trek.
Read what they had to say here.
Photo credit: Carmine Marinelli /24 HOURS
We had our Street2Peak Project media launch event on May 1, 2014 to tell Vancourites what’s happening at Streetfront Alternative School and its awesome students!!
Read about it here!
Photo credit: Jennifer Gauthier
Trevor along with two students, Alannah and Brandon, spoke with Vancouver Courier reporter Cheryl Rossi about their participation in the Street2Peak Project and why Streetfront has been important in their life.
You can read their thoughts here.
Photo credit: Dan Toulgoet
Reporter Jordan Yerman from the Vancouver Observer spoke with Trevor and two students, Savannah and Shivnay, about their goal to stand atop the highest mountain in Africa!
Read the article here.
On April 25th three Streetfront students along with Trevor spoke at a school assembly at Dr. R.E.O. McKechnie Elementary School. Jasper, Nick and Jesse did a fantastic job speaking to the young students about their experiences at Streetfront, their marathon running accomplishments and Streetfront’s Street2Peak Project: Mt. Kilimanjaro.
This talk is one of many to come over the years as part of a mission of the S2P Project to have youth inspire youth to go beyond what they think is possible, to reinforce that it doesn’t matter where you come from – it matters where you go!
Today we worked in our garden guided by the staff and volunteers with the Environmental Youth Alliance. We sampled the leaves and flowers (taste like broccoli) of our Kale plants, planted two more apple trees, added more mulch to the paths, transplanted the green onions from our indoor starter garden and into their new home soil, did some weeding, and mixed some of our rich on site compost into the garden beds. Despite the rain we accomplished a lot, learnt some new things and had fun.
How is this connected to our Mt. Kilimanjaro trip? Britannia has a sister community garden program with the Sega Girls School in Morogoro, Tanzania. Sega is a residential secondary school for bright motivated Tanzanian girls who otherwise are unable to attend school due to extreme poverty. If possible we hope to visit their school and garden when we are in Tanzania in March 2015!
Alannah planting green onions.
The Street2Peak Project is very pleased that we are starting to get a lot of media attention for Streetfront Alternative School, our awesome marathon running students and our up-and-coming Street2Peak Family Charity Run.
Keep an eye out for articles in the Vancouver Courier, Impact Magazine, WestCoast Families magazine and an appearance on Breakfast Television!
Thank you to all that have been actively working on creating media buzz for our project and talking it up on social media!
Trevor and students starting off on the first of our thrice-weekly runs. Bring on Kilimanjaro!
Mike Veinot from CBC’s Village on a Diet and Rep One Fitness will be leading us through the warm up at 9:00 am before the run start.
Register now for the run and help support our drive to place 18 inner-city on the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro!
Here is your chance to support the Street2Peak initiative in a huge way. When you register – as an individual, family or corporate group, 100% of the registration fees goes to putting 18 at-risk youth on the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro!
This fun event is best shared with many friends, family or co-workers. If you have pre-registered make sure you are there at 9:00 am for the warm-up with the run starting at 9:15 am. The warm-up and start line can be found at the concession stand at Jericho Beach (map) with the anchor at Spanish Banks as the turn-around point – for those that completing the full 6 km distance. We will have turn-around points marked for those wishing to do 1 km or 4 km distance but feel free to turn around at any point in this non-timed event.
Please register now on this website. This will make your day all about fun and minimize the workload on our precious volunteers. We will have a run registration table at Jericho Beach starting at 8:15 am for those spontaneous folk. Cash or personal cheques will be the only run day registration options.
This event would not be possible without our run organizers – Shannon Vrlak, Laura Hately, Catherine Watkins and Sara DesBrisay who approached us to offer this run on our behalf. We also thank the tremendous support of the many volunteers and sponsors. Please check out the sponsor’s tables at the event, some of whom are current sponsors of the Streetfront Alternative Program.
If cannot make the Family Charity Run but you still want to support the Street2Peak initiative please donate here.
We are so stoked to have Ray Zahab – adventure runner extraordinaire and impossible2Possible (i2P) founder, give Street2Peak his endorsement. Ray is the world’s leader in youth expeditions and his support is greatly appreciated.
Check out i2P and see what youth can accomplish with the support of inspirational people like Ray!
We have created a Gallery page to highlight student accomplishments, like running marathons; training activities for the big trip; fundraising events; awesome people who are making this epic trip possible and anything else we think you want to see as we move from goal to success. Check back often but we will do our best to keep you up to date through our various social media accounts.
In our constant quest for fitness and group bonding, two goals in our training for Kilimanjaro, we recently completed our annual Winter Camp. Once again we utilized the conveniently accessible Scouts cabin in the Hollyburn area of Cypress Provincial Park.
The 30 minute hike into the cabin was for some students their first experience carrying in their gear and food. Teamwork was important since the students were arranged into food groups – coming up with their menus, shopping, packaging, cooking and cleaning up after themselves. Many students had little or no grocery budgeting and shopping experience so new skills were obtained.
Activities included snowshoeing at Mt. Seymour Provincial Park, snowboarding at Cypress Mountain and many evening group games while relaxing at the cabin. The class once again impressed the staff with their compassion and care for each other, especially when a fellow classmate was injured during snowboarding.
We look forward to many more training opportunities, disguised as adventures, as we work towards our epic Kilimanjaro trip!
