2nd DAWG bake sale! 18.11.11

Today was the second bake sale organized my the DAWG comity. It took place during the break of the Secondary drama production, Fiddler on the Roof. Each memeber of the DAWG group was assigned to either bake or buy a paticular sweet food. We sold food like: cup-cakes, brownies, cake, soft drinks and biscuits. All these sweets were marked at a low price since we wanted to sell everything rather than have left overs when selling the food foe a high price. We had food packs that consisted of two snacks and a drink, this was sold for 150 rupees which is very reasonably compared to how much this amount would be sold in a professional bake sale or a shop. We are not yet sure exactly how much we raised however we has some idea hoe many people bought stuff and it was more people who came for our first bake sale, at school. Therefore we have most probably raised more than 6000 rupees, which is how much we raised in the first bake sale.
This gives us enough money to pay for the dog sterilizations which will occur in the end of February. In the mean time we will organize a venue, date, vets and other things we will need to organize the sterilizations.
I am proud that we have provided the dogs with a large amount of food, in the food drive and now we enough money to sterilize the dogs, which will keep them healthy and less immune to diseases.

Dwag bake sale 07.11.11

Today we organized a bake sale during break and lunch. It was thought of about 2 weeks ago. I made bone shaped butter cookies. They got sold in the first 10 minutes. I was really proud that people bought food from our stall, We sold cookies, brownies, cupcakes and cake. Everything was sold at break. Which meant two things. 1) people liked what we baked and 2) we were free at lunch!
We raised rsp 6000/- from this bake sale. We have planned to have another bake sale during the interval of the secondary school production which will be next Friday. For the interval we will sell simillar goods as we did today. We Hope to raise the same or more money. We predict that we will earn more money next week since there will be lots of people and only we will be selling food, rather than today where there was a whole canteen of food.

The DAWG organization in OSC was very happy with what we accomplished today. We need to raise 12-15,000 rupees in order to have enough money for the dog sterilizations. We have raised half the amount we need to, and we assume that we will raise more in the secondary production, which means we may raise more money than necessary which we can use to purchase more food and essentials for the dogs.

Bethlehem Creche...

Hi my name is Jamila Akbarally,I am 13 year old. Previously I had been doing Prison Babies. We visited children who lived in the school of the prison since their mothers were in prison. The reason we changed our CAS was because the mothers were being moved to Kalutura , therefore their children as well were being sent with them. Now we have changed our CAS to the Bethlehem Creche. We visit children who dont have mothers and whoose fathers are in jail. The Creche takes care of them and provides them with most the resources they need. Thats why we help them by making sure they have everythig they need. On the 12th of March 2011 we put together a candy floss stall at our anual school food and fun fair. We earnt about 120 dollars, we are planning on using the money to help the Creche. We are not sure about what we are actually going to get for them, however we know it will be one big useful thing other than many small not so useful objects.
On the 3rd of Feburary we visited the Creche to see the Children and look around and think of ways to help them. They had a good amount of toys and chairs. However we thought that it was quite dark and we could some how provide them with more light. We got to socialize with the kids and talk to them. They seemed to have a great time. For the last to sessions of CAS we had intense meetings to organize things for the children and think about what we can do for them. We came up with: painting the play ground, providing them with a dvd player and some dvds, supporting the women who work there.

Party for the Creche!!!!

Today was our last ever meeting with the children of the creche. We had a party with the kids. For the first half we watched tom and jerry with them and then we played puzzles and games. This was all done in the SMPR. Last month i did a fund raiser for the Creche. I collected the money by selling handmade fashion cards. I managed to earn 7000/- rupees. We asked sister Florida what would be best for the Creche with the money I earned. In a few days she replied and told us that a DVD player would be perfect. At the previous CAS session, when the children came to OSC, I handed the DVD player to the sister in front of the all the children as well as the Creche members in OSC. I was proud of my acheivement, especially cause I was helping children in need. Children who arent as lucky as me, they dont have the oppertunities that i have been given. Even though this was our last session for this year, i plan to still keep in contact and donate a few monthly supplies.
I have thought about starting my own CAS on Musculer Distrophey. Since my father is a doctor i will beable to contact some doctors and tell them my aim as well as what i plan to do.
Muscular Distrophey is a condition were there is no such cure, I want to earn money to beable to pay different specalists for research. If this is not possible and it will get too complex, I want to think of another way to help my community. I will try as hard as I can to get my own research on Muscular Distrophey, however I do have a back-up plan. Next year I want to go one step further, not only attend a CAS at school but also create my own little group to help a seperste condition.
Till then, fingers crossed and minds open................