The 20 hour famine

I was watching TV and I saw an ad for the 40 hour famine.  It said that it was raising money for children in Bangladesh who don't have much food to eat.  Lots of young children even die because they have not enough food.  I told Mum I wanted to do it.  She thought maybe I was a bit young but I was determined.  Because I am 7, I did the 20 hour famine.  I chose to not eat for that time as I wanted to know what it can be like for children to be really hungry. 

I was allowed juice, water and some barley sugar lollies but nothing else for the 20 hours. 

We asked some of our friends and family to sponsor me.  I hoped to raise $150, and in the end I raised $205.  That goes to World Vision who will use it to help the children in Bangladesh.  I didn't find the famine too hard, but at the end of 17 hours I went to a birthday party that had yummy food.  I stayed there for the last three hours of the famine and I just kept remembering that children needed my help and then I could say no to the food.  My Mum and my Auntie did the famine too so that I wasn't the only one not eating but they didn't get sponsors. 

Stocking the Soup Kitchen's Kitchen

This morning we went to the supermarket to spend the $160 I raised for Soup Kitchen Wellington.  I had looked at their website and had a practice visit so I knew what sort of products I should buy.

 

I took my time to choose what I wanted, to get the best prices and to add everything up.
 

The trolley got so full I could hardly push it! It took me one hour to do all the shopping. I felt happy with my choices.
 

 

It was funny because we had added up everything to cost exactly $160 but when we went through the check out it was cheaper! We decided to give that to then in cash instead of going back into the shop. 

 We were going to go home after the shopping and go in to the Soup Kitchen tomorrow but the car was so full we decided to go straight away. At the Soup Kitchen everyone was very kind and they showed us where everything is cooked, where people sit and the store room.  They said I might want to come back and visit with my class and I really want to do that. 

 

 

I hope that my food donation and the $24 cash donation can give food to lots of people who need it.  

Helping the homeless

I have been busy with a new fundraising project.   I made a lot of crafts to sell to raise money for a Soup Kitchen in Wellington.  I always feel sad when I see homeless people when we go into the city and sometimes I use my pocket money to buy someone on the street some lunch.  I wanted to do some fundraising to help homeless people and so we looked at ideas and the Soup Kitchen feeds lots of people in Wellington who need help with food and so I decided to help them.  I chose to raise money to go and buy groceries to stock up their kitchen. 

 

I made some craft kits like I've done before and also some magnets and notebooks.  Because caring is my super power I did lots of super hero crafts but I also did some Easter ones.  I was supposed to go to the same kind of Kids Market that I did for the Child Cancer Foundation but it got cancelled. My friend's Mum told us about another one and so that was a one hour kids market. 

 

 

At the market I sold $50 worth of my crafts which was a lot in one hour. 

 

I wanted to raise even more money though so my old Preschool, where I went for 3 years, said I could set up a table in the foyer there.  Lots and lots of the parents bought my crafts until I was all sold out!  In total I raised $160 for Soup Kitchen Wellington which was more than my goal of $150 so I am really happy. 

 

My next job is to go to the supermarket and spend that money on food.  Mum has taken me into the supermarket to look around and start to choose what would be good to buy.  I am looking forward to the shopping trip, and then we will go into the soup kitchen to drop everything off.  

Collecting for the Child Cancer Foundation

On the weekend I did some collecting for the Child Cancer Foundation with my Mum.  I stood with a bucket for an hour and a half and collected money and gave people stickers for their donation.

This was my second time collecting like this because I have done it for the Red Cross, and my second time helping the Child Cancer foundation.

I chose to do this collecting because my friend had Cancer which makes me really sad.  I am friends with her brother too and I wanted to help her family.  Now I know about children with Cancer I would like to help as many children as I can.

 



Raising money for the Child Cancer Foundation

Today I dropped off $135 (NZD) to the Child Cancer Foundation in Wellington.  I raised this money by selling craft kits and Oreo pops at a Kids Craft Market.  I wanted to use my market stall to raise money for others, not just to get money for myself.

I love craft and it was nearly Christmas time so I made craft kits to sell.  Because my blog is caring is my super power I made make your own super hero mask kits.  They looked like this:

I also made decorate your own Christmas tree kits.  I made lots of labels and posters too.  It was a lot of work to get ready.

 

 

At the Kids Market I also had a table where children could decorate their own wooden decoration to take home.  The donation for this also went to the Child Cancer Foundation.  The market went for four hours and Mum thought that maybe I would do two hours before I got tired.  I did the whole four hours and by the time we set up and tidied up again we were there for almost 7 hours.  I had fun and people were very kind.  Some of my friends came to see me.  Some other friends didn't come but they bought my craft kits later so they helped me raise $135.  I had wanted to make $100 so I did more than my goal.

 

When I went to the Child Cancer Foundation today I took the money inside a card.  I wrote how I raised the money and put a photo of me at the market.  I met Alison and Scott and they were really nice.  They asked me questions and showed me their Family Place.  They know my friend who died and her family and we talked about her. 

 

 

 I would like to raise more money for the Child Cancer Foundation some time later this year.  I do have another plan first because I want to help the homeless people in Wellington by getting lots of food for one of the soup kitchens.  I will write more about that soon!