ClearCause is featured on a KSTP Channel 5 News which aired Thursday October 24, 2013.
Twenty-year-old Thomas Plotkin was hiking in a remote part of India on a study abroad trip with National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) when his life ended. His mother, Elizabeth Brenner, is rallying for her son in a wrongful death lawsuit against NOLS. Thomas’ body was never found.
“He was beautiful. He was perfect. He was my world,” Brenner said.
ClearCause founder Sheryl Hill’s son Tyler Hill also died a preventable death while traveling abroad in Japan on a People to People Student Ambassador trip. "I wanted to give my son the world. It's not worth it if they die," Sheryl said.
Brenner filed a lawsuit in federal court against NOLS, accusing them of negligence in her son’s death, the article reported. “She alleges that NOLS didn’t provide enough instruction and supervision to its students and didn’t get to authorities fast enough after Plotkin’s fall,” the article reported.
"No one investigates these programs. They investigate themselves," Sheryl said. "You need to know everything that happens on those trips and who you are trusting your child to because there are sometimes no second chances.”
That’s why ClearCause exists – we fight for safety, transparency, regulation and oversight in the youth and student abroad industry. Safety is not an accident.
Watch Elizabeth Brenner's story below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfD0ZKt4e2w
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