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Lakewood Sister Cities is a volunteer, non-profit
organization that arranges for adults and students living in Jefferson
County, Colorado to visit Sutherland Shire, Australia, Chester and
Portsmouth, England, and Stade, Germany. (Thanks to the city of Lakewood,
Colorado for supporting this program and allowing all of Jefferson
County to participate!)
Student
Exchanges
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Jefferson County students live and
attend school for 6 months in Australia, then host an Australian
student for six months. Only Jefferson County, Colorado high school
students are eligible. Each student's family is matched
with an Australian family who houses the student in exchange for
the American family housing the Australian student
The trip is funded by personal funds and group fund-raising activities.
Through the Music Scholar Program, Lakewood Sister Cities
also exchanges one student musician with a student musician
from Chester, England. This is a two-week exchange. The musician
will be given the opportunity to play with an orchestra while
in England.
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Adult
Exchanges
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Adult exchanges
consist of 10-day visitations in Chester and Portsmouth, England,
Stade, Germany; or Sutherland Shire, Australia every third year
(rotating through a different country each year). Sister
Cities members in these countries provide housing for the visitors.
The following year, Lakewood Sister Cities members provide housing
for visitors from the country they visited.
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The Sister Cities program is
a fun, inexpensive, and educational way to travel and meet people
from other countries.
If you don't live in Jefferson County, look into Sister
Cities International. They are the parent organization of the
sister city programs and have a list of all the cities in the world
that are involved in exchanges, including other Colorado cities
For more information, including membership and participation in any
of our programs,
You can
call us at: 1-877-208-8703
or email
us at: Info@LSCP.org
or you can
write us at:
Lakewood Sister Cities Program
PO Box 260861
Lakewood, Colorado
80226 USA
Fundraising Corner
“123Inkjets:” Buy High Quality Refilled Inkjet Cartridges and Contribute to LSC!
To buy cartridges and contribute to LSCP, just follow these 3 easy steps:
1- Go to www.123inkjets.com/fund
2- Enter the program keyword "sydney" and click on the submit button.
3- Begin shopping and recycling.
AND, don’t forget to buy King Soopers Gift Certificates.
These are still the primary fundraiser for Lakewood Sister Cities. Buy them at face value and use them like cash. Five percent of every certificate purchased and used by our members is money in the bank for Sister Cities. Buy one $25 certificate and you add $1.25 to our account; buy $100 and you put $5 in our account. It all adds up and allows our programs to continue. You can use them at all King Soopers, City Markets, and many Safeway stores. To buy certificates, call Bob Wood, our ways and means chairman, at 303-233-8349, or call any of the student exchange members.
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