SRLA Cares

SRLA Cares raises social, environmental, and community awareness through various community projects throughout the training season. SRLA Cares provides an opportunity for SRLA students to give back to their communities both large and small.

Here’s how Luis, a 2016 SRLA high school graduate and SRLA Scholarship recipient, described the impact of participating in SRLA Cares:

I’ve been inspired by the generosity of SRLA, through the opportunity to participate in smaller races before the marathon. In every race, each school is encouraged to partake in SRLA Cares, focused on bringing a specific item to give back to the community. Before my exposure to this, I have never truly understood the importance of providing a lending hand. Therefore, in my transition to high school, I entered with a state of mind of doing something similar. Over the course of my four years in high school, I have earned over 300 hours of community [service]…. SRLA does a lot for the community and I aimed to do the same.

SRLA Cares Breaks Guinness World Record

On Saturday, August 9, 2014, SRLA collected and counted 18,302 shoes at Belvedere Middle School and broke the Guinness World Record for “Most Shoes Collected for Recycling, which previously stood at 16,407 shoes!

SRLA Superstar

Requirements:

  1. Perfect attendance through May 15th

  2. B or better in every class for the year

  3. Complete every SRLA event

  4. Help someone at school who you do no know with a school project

  5. Coordinate your groups efforts with any 3 of the following 6 projects:

    • 100 dollars for Every Penny Counts

    • 100 pounds of recyclables for Reduce Reuse Recycle

    • 100 cans of food items from Yes we CAN!

    • 100 paper goods for Supply Us

    • 100 toys or school supplies for Bring Joy with a Toy and Be Cool to a School

    • 100 lbs of pasta for Pasta to make a difference

SRLA Environmental - Who Cares

Requirements:

  1. Commit to NOT USE single serving plastic bottles through May 15th

  2. Recycle 100 lbs of plastics bottles from not through May 15th

  3. View the following 3 films and submit short reviews:

    • Plastic Paradise

    • Tapped

    • Amazing Grace & Chuck

  4. Visit a landfill and a water treatment facility. Submit short review and a few selfies

  5. Create and implement a school-wide 1 (or more) day recycling project

  6. Create an eco-art project and submit a few pictures

Adults are also welcome to take on the SRLA Environmental - Who Cares challenge

 

2018 - 2019 SRLA Cares Projects