Investing funds in a larger scale project

We soon realized that all our awareness and fund raising have been restricted to the school’s community. We decided to target a wider range of people as we cannot expect the OSC students to make too much of a commitment to our service program when they have their own to take care of. Chris came up with a brilliant idea of having an open air concert, inviting local bands to play on our field, and immediately brought the idea up to Ms Chamila, the service coordinator. She was extremely enthusiastic but suggested chamber music concert instead and advised us against using the field since we would have to pay extra for sounds: we do have our own auditorium after all! After some discussions with Ms Williams, our Head of School, and Mr. Coles, our Principal, it was confirmed!

We opted to have a concert of various performances by schools around Colombo, as well as ours of course, such as choirs, musical performances, dances etc. This would be an affective way of spreading awareness over a lot more people while simultaneously encouraging OSC students to socialize with other schools’ students. School addresses were found; invitation letters were drafted, redrafted, printed on impressive paper (with the school’s letterhead!) and sent off to school all around Colombo. Then came the wait for replies…