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!
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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