Movies, popcorn and brownies

We finally decided on showing ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ to the Secondary students, as it was a perfect means of raising awareness since it’s a heart wrenching story of how a girl deals with leukemia, and ‘Up’ for the Primary students (an animation: we didn’t want to show them anything too sad!). We spoke to the respective heads of school to get permission and advice on when to show the films. Mr. Rana, the auditorium manager was consulted on when it would be free for the Secodary showing while the Multi-Purpose Room was sufficient for the Primary one.

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Permission letters had to be typed up for the Primary school students to stay after school; Ms Tanuja offered to give them out to each teacher as she teaches a Primary class. We decided to buy popcorn from the canteen and get some drinks to give them before the movie. Sabagenerously agreed to make her famous brownies for us to sell at the Secondary showing so all refreshments were sorted! We charged 300/= a ticket for the primary (inclusive of drink and popcorn), 250/= for the Secondary and 50/= for the brownies. Nyira and Harini were put in charge of making publicity posters and Tara edited them.

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The turnout for the Secondary movie was somewhat disappointing, probably because it had to be held on a Monday; the Primary one was a lot more successful. We were quite pleased with ourselves as we had not just raised funds (over Rs 15,000) but have also taught ourselves negotiating and organization abilities.