Showcase YOUR school!
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We always love to hear from you and your teachers about what your school has done to fundraise for an Appeal. We get emails and letters every week, telling us about your amazing work- so we thought it would be a great idea to SHOWCASE these- so you can see what other kids are doing and GET INSPIRED! Remember to check this page regularly- your school could be mentioned up here!! Send us your news : admin@schoolaid.org.au
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From this week, we wanted to showcase a totally unique story:
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Georgina and Ellen live on Claverton
Station, about 120 kms south of Charleville. The station is
50,000 acres (20,000 hectares) and has 1,000 stud merinos and 1,000
dorper cross meat sheep. There are also approximately
2,300 cows on agistment. Georgina and Ellen do Distance
Education.
Last year the girls watched a video on the SchoolAid website, and saw the devastation caused by the tsunami. They were particularly concerned about how the children of Samoa would be able to continue their school lessons with such a loss of school buildings and equipment. The girls raised funds for the Asia Pacific Appeal by holding a Spellathon. PLAN A - Their home tutor arranged to take them to businesses in Charleville to ask for sponsorship, but the girls, like a lot of isolated children, were too shy to speak to strangers. PLAN B - they emailed a number of people, including the local politician, relatives, neighbours and friend, even their grandmother's doctor. Their federall member, the Hon Bruce Scott, sponsored them, as did the Mayor or Paroo Shire, Mrs Jo Shepherd, and the Principal and several teachers from the Charleville School of Distance Education. E-mail, of course, is a very efficient way to contact people in different parts of the globe, and the obtained sponsors as far away as Canada and Iraq. At the time they held the Spellathon, Ellen was in Prep, and Georgina was in Year 2. Since there is no Spelling List for preppies, Ellen attempted 27 of the Year 2 Spellings. Ellen's final score was 25 out of 27, and Georgina's 77 out of 100. Some of their funds came in within a few days by Internet transfer, and others, in the rural tradition, were posted to the girls by mail, with quite a number arriving with the Christmas cards. The last cheque arrived by mail in February this year. The girls' total was $1468.24 which was transferred to the SchoolAid account once the last cheques were banked. Ellen and Georgina say that this year they are going to try something completely different. GO ELLEN AND GEORGINA! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOUR AMAZING EFFORTS! |
RT @MummysWishInc: Our target markets and audience for these events would be 25-50 year old women - who wants their product or service in front of 10,000 women - about 1 months ago
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