Needs List

There are many ways to help Johann Ludwig Schneller Schule, here are some suggestions:

1- Donations in Kind: Snow in JLSS

We greatly welcome your donations ranging from shoes and clothing to sweets.
2- Donations in Cash:
Any small contribution makes a large difference. If you would like to make a contribution to our school please click this link for our bank details.
3- Volunteer at JLSS:
Volunteering opportunities range from teaching and cleaning to distributing flyers and posters on special events!
Click here to download an applications form (pdf format).
For more information about helping JLSS please contact our director.

Help us by Mailing to us Your Old Licensed Original Software
Friends, partners, and alumni can help us by mailing to our school CDs of old original licensed software that is not being used by them. Starting from Windows 95 and Office 97; all these unused CDs on your shelves or in your drawers and cabinets can be most useful to us and will save us a lot of money. As Schneller School is committed to antipiracy, the cost of software is a big burden on its finances. You can help us a great deal by sending us your old unused CDs. Children and young people's DVDs will also be appreciated.
(Received some German software and games from the Kreh Visiting Group of 2010)

Urgent Needs List

1-The price of diesel oil is rising enormously. We need diesel oil for heating our fourteen large buildings through this winter season. Our school is in an area that goes through very cold winters with subzero temperatures, especially at night, lasting for many days. We also need diesel oil daily for our electric generators. We urge our friends and partners to help us meet this very urgent need. We especially urge JLSS alumni who remember our cold winters very well to think of our children this year and concentrate all their efforts on helping us meet this very urgent need.

2- Installing Solar Panels for Water Heaters: (Implemented with a kind grant from BibleLands)
        Building No 6: US$ 9,247
        Building No 7: US$ 5,656
        Building No 8: US$ 10,594

3- Installing Solar Panels for Water Heaters: (Implemented with a kind grant from the Rotary Foundation)
        Families 5
        Main Kitchen
        Family 4 & GBH 2 & 3 (to be implemented by the Italian Embassy and the Lebanese Ministry of Environment)

4- Replacing the old battered wooden windows with new double glazed windows:
        Building No 8 Ground Floor & 1st Floor: (Implemented with a kind donation from EVS, Beirut Church & Mr. Tony Asfour)
        Building No 8 2nd Floor: US$ 9,175
        Building No 6 1st Floor: US$ 9,775

5- Universal Milling Machines (2 units) urgently needed for the Dual System teaching program. Cost of two restored units: 50,000 €
    (A CNC Machine was donated by the Rotary Foundation: RC Wasserburg & RC Beirut Cosmopolitan)
   (A Milling Machine was donated by GTZ)

6- Heavy Duty Potato Peeler for the kitchen. Cost: 3,500 € (Delivered in kind by our partners BBW & EMS form Germany)

7- Equipping a new Computer Classroom with up-to-date systems. (Implemented with a kind donation from the Lutheran Board of Mission - USA)

8- Small Delivery Van for Bakery. Estimated Cost: 6,000 €

9- Renovation and Furnishing of old Classrooms 2,500 €

10- Scholarship Grants for None-Lebanese Boarding Students (Received 3 grants for 2 years from our Swiss partners SVS)

11- Pre-school Center US$ 185,000 (Converting one of our old houses to a pre-school center.

12- Vocational Training Center for Girls: Building Renovation Cost: US$ 100.000 (Implemented with kind grants from BibleLands, EVS, and a legacy from the late Elisabeth von der Decken)

13- Renovation and Repair of Girls Boarding Homes Building (Implemented with a kind grant from BibleLands)

14- New Furniture for Boys Boarding Homes Cost: 1,500 € per home (Boys Boarding Home 4 got new furniture by a kind grant form Dr. Brigitte Menzel-Wortmann)

Other Important Needs

Hi Tech Equipment for Electricity Workshop
In order to start implementing the Dual System for teaching Industrial Electricity our workshop requires very expensive equipment. We need a grant of 50.000 € for this purpose.

New Modern Electricity Generators that Save Diesel Consumption

Wind and Solar Street Lights (15 needed each costing US$ 4,500)
Kitchen Renovation and Laundry Relocation
The relocation of the Laundry proved unsuccessful. When the equipment and furnishings were moved to the new laundry area under the kitchen, there was no space for storage of bedding, sheets and towels. We still needed to use one floor of the old laundry house for that purpose. The relocation of the kitchen store to the old laundry house also proved to be counterproductive. When kitchen staff have to carry 50 kilogram bags and other heavy boxes on a daily basis, and when the inside of the kitchen is so warm and outside temperatures in winter can be in sub-zero levels, it is only logical that the kitchen store must be in the same building as the kitchen. We currently have to use different parts of two buildings for the kitchen and the laundry respectively, because we do not have any other option. Eventually, we need to renovate the old laundry house and bring the whole laundry department back to it. We also need to return the kitchen store to the same building of the kitchen. The extra space in the kitchen building will be needed in the near future for Hotel Management training. Estimated Cost of Kitchen Renovation and Laundry Relocation 25,000 €

St. Michael's Church
The church building is in a desperate need for major renovation. The renovation will include new foundation and tiling as the current floor is sinking down, new paint for benches and walls, and new windows. The church also needs a good full pedal organ (computer simulation of a pipe organ).

Roofs
We will continue the renovation of the broken roofs of our campus buildings. This process started in 2003 and will continue until 2009 when we hope that all our roofs will be fixed. The roofs of four more boarding buildings and the kitchen have been already renovated.

Playgrounds
The surfaces of both our basketball and football fields need treatment and resurfacing.

Preschool Swings Slides and seesaws
The preschool play area needs new swings, slides, seesaws, and other play items for preschool children.

School Library (Received kind grant of GBP 500 from BibleLands and many German and English books from the personal libraries of the late Mr. Theophile Boutagy and the late Dr. Wanis Semaan)
The school library is in desperate need for new books, CDs, and DVDs in Arabic, English and German.

New Science Laboratory (Implemented with a kind grant form the Lutheran Board of Mission - USA)

Musical Instruments (Instruments kindly sent by Dr. Rishmaui and Dr. Dahdal)

Books and Games for Boarding Homes
All our boarding homes need books for small libraries and Games for play-time.