I am
delighted to inform you that my friends and I have raised a whopping £865
altogether in our 2 weeks event.
To carry
out this huge responsibility that we had taken upon us, involved organising
everything by ourselves such as the planning of the events beforehand and
putting it forward to our head teacher who kindly gave us the permission to
carry out the fundraising events. We held assemblies to the whole school
promoting the charities and raising awareness for both of the charities that
are very close to our hearts.
The
charities that we chose were very dear to us; they were Water solution for
Africa and G.I.F.T UK which is a charity that I am helping to organise and I am
a co fonder of it. This charity stands for Gastroparesis and Intestinal Failure
Trust. What this is paralysis of the stomach for the patients; to find out more
visit our Facebook page (and hit the
like button!) www.facebook.com/giftuk and my blog http://smilingwithgastroparesis.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-is-gastroparesis.html Help Raise Awareness!
Read.
Share. Support.
The
Money was split between both of these charities. Water Solution for Africa
getting £432.50 which we were lucky that government was doubling the amount at
that moment in time giving a total of £865.00 And GIFT UK receiving £432.50.
This will be split in two as well with £200 of the funds directly going to the
Wingate Institute of neurogastroenterology for further research into
gastroparesis and digestive tract paralysis. And the remaining £232.50 to GIFT.
The
following events that were organised are Car wash (for teachers only), Home
bake sale for teachers only (including delicious fresh cakes, fruit kebabs, waffle’s
etc…), a whole week of bake sale for students (including mouth-watering
doughnuts, popcorn, crisps, chocolates, cakes and muffins) and fantastically
beautiful henna tattoos. Also donations from students and teachers alike at
break times.
All this
would have not been possible without theses amazing friends, Mariam Mir, Mary
Hoang, Sandleen Iftihikar, Maha Tahir, Jawhariyo Abdullahi and Ayshath Fasmeena
Cheriyalampady House; who put blood and sweat into this fundraising events.
With out there brilliant ideas this would have not been achievable.
We would
like to thank the sixth form students who helped us out tremendously in all the
fundraising events. Thank you to Mr Lavell for making this possible and
students and staff at Whitefield School for donating generously.
You made
this happen.
Thank
you all for your on-going support!
Hafsa
Momin co-founder for GIFTuk
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