On the 13th of March, our school held a fair and each service was given the opportunity to have their own stall to make funds.
A few ideas we came up with for ours were:
· Face painting
· Selling t-shirts specially designed for Hope for Kids
· Selling postcards with the children’s drawings on them
· Making ribbon bracelets/ hair bands
· Games with fun prizes
Finally we settled for buying yellow ribbons, the ‘official colour’ of Hope for Kids, and making bracelets to sell since it is a plan that can be easily implemented in the limited time we had. Face painting was also very tempting but that was already taken by another stall. Refusing to give up on the idea, we decided to draw the Hope for Kids logo (the yellow sun) on people’s cheeks as we thought this was a great way of raising awareness.
On the day of the fair, Priyanka and I got down to cutting up the ribbons Ms Tanuja (our supervisor) was able to get for us when I suddenly realized that simply handing out ribbons and expecting people to pay for them isn’t enough. We should make a bit more effort! I suggested tying three ribbons together and plaiting them which looked considerable better than just plain ribbon if I do say so myself. J Thishakya soon joined us and we were plaiting away until it was time for us to move into the field.
We hadn’t made enough plaited bracelets so I stayed at the Grade 11 stall making some more with help from
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