Thursday, December 22, 2011

Helping make poverty history this Christmas

On Saturday November 17, 2011, Ella Pearse (daughter of RESULTS Northern Beaches member Melissa Pearse), and her two friends Edita and Sienna, held a small fundraising stall at a local shopping centre and raised a remarkable $120! Here's what they wrote:

We decided to raise for RESULTS because we wanted to help make poverty history and help save children and their families all round the world that aren’t as lucky as us.

Firstly, we had a meeting together to plan out what we were going to make, how much everything was to be and what we had to bring on the day.

We made the lucky dip, lolly bags and cards so they were ready for the stall.

On Sunday the 20th we met at Edita’s house at 10.30am to make all of the food.  At around 1:00pm we finally finished making the food and Edita’s mum drove us up to Elanora Top shops to set up our stall.  We set up our stall in front of the Elanora Newsagent because it was closed.

When customers came to our stall or people were walking past we told them we were raising money for a group called results that is trying to make poverty history.

Although 50 per cent of the people didn’t buy anything, most of them donated money anyway.  After an hour and a half Edita’s mum picked us up from our stall and we took everything back.  After cleaning up and sorting everything out we counted up all of the money that we raised together which added up to $120!

We thank everyone that donated money for RESULTS to help end poverty!

From left to right: Ella Pearse (11yrs-old), Edita Grinsberg (10yrs-old), and Sienna Baker (11yrs-old).