10th Annual Weston Lacrosse Speaker Series Presents:
Brad Corrigan and Lacrosse the Nations

The Weston Lacrosse Club formed a community service partnership in 2010 with Lacrosse the Nations to raise awareness and funding for its programs.  Lacrosse the Nations, an international humanitarian 501c(3) organization, was founded under the principal that education is the best pathway out of poverty and toward a better life. By partnering with lacrosse programs in the U.S. and with schools in impoverished communities around the globe, LTN establishes lacrosse to help improve educational enrollment, attendance and graduation rates while encouraging health, safety, respect and FUN.
 
Lacrosse the Nations and its co-founder, Brad Corrigan, appeared at Weston High School on April 15, 2010 to show its award-winning documentary, and to perform songs and tell stories about the positive impact sports can have on educating children in impoverished communities worldwide. Brad is a musician with the internationally known band, Dispatch. Dispatch sold out 3 straight nights at Madison Square Garden, played at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and drew 110,000 fans to a concert on the Esplanade in Boston.

In its first year of operation, LTN has partnered with the school located in the city dump community in Managua, Nicaragua. The dump community, known as La Chureca, is home to 1,000 people, half of them children, who endure extreme poverty living in and subsisting off other people's garbage. Nearly 350 students attend the school in grades K-6. While poor perhaps beyond our understanding, the children express hope and happiness in their everyday lives that is inspiring for those from outside the community. The co-founders of LTN have worked as humanitarians in the dump community for 5 years and are trusted advocates there. Weston Lacrosse Club's founder, Paul Scheufele, visited La Chureca with captains from the 2007 Weston High School boys and girls lacrosse teams, Darren Scheufele and Sarah Fagan,  to observe first hand the impact Lacrosse the Nations is having on children there.  In July 2010, former WHS lacrosse player Matt McMahon traveled to Nicaragua to work with LTN.  Matt is working as a summer intern raising funding and awareness for Lacrosse the Nations at various summer tournaments on the east coast.

For more information on the Lacrosse the Nations, please see www.lacrossethenations.org <http://www.lacrossethenations.org> .