Moonilia’s Blog

By: Moonilia and Kristie

We have chosen ‘Child mortality’  as a target to accomplish for Millenium Goals. All 8 goals of Millenium Development Goals are equally important however we found our interest in ‘Child mortality’. Particularly we are making 3 specific plans to raise funds for 2 organizations: Operation Smile and Heartbeat Vietnam.

There are 3 ways that we think would be most effective and have the simplest process. First of all, on 14th November is ‘Bazaar Day’ when we can join donation by selling school supplies. This would be done effectively because my cousin owns a bookstore therefore I am able get new free school supplies and we are going to sell those with lower price. We have chosen Bazaar Day because many people will come and this means the amount of goods that we can sell will increase so more funds we can make.

Another way to raise funds sufficiently is we are going to establish a game call ‘Guess the teachers’. We will print out sheets which contains names of the teachers and their secrets or interesting facts that relate to them and their present or history lives. To play this game, the students have to buy this sheet and match the teacher’s names with the statements have been listed. This would attract people attention because we are going to make a prize at the end of the year for those who got all right and hand in earliest. This event will take place in 2 weeks before the end of school year. This is because we want to have 2 weeks for selling these sheets and give people time to compete. Moreover the prize can be given out on the day that we celebrate end of year celebration. Besides, to prevent the threat of people photocopying the sheets, we would ask the school to lend us ‘SSIS property’ stamp (if it is available). The price of the sheet will be 2.000 VND / sheet and will be sold for all students from elementary to senior. To ensure that this plan will work, we are going to make posters advertising about the event.

Another plan that we could think of is during Valentine’s day, we will open a rose shop and delivery service. We will set up a group of people who are interested in earning CAP hours to help complete the process. We will sell roses and some small cards as well. We will deliver roses based on requirements of the costumers during Valentine’s day. The price of the roses and cards will be the same as public price, delivery will be free. People can book roses and cards a few days before Valentine’s day so we would have time to set up and prepare. Everybody in the school including staff and students are able to buy roses and require delivery.

After all 3 plans have done, all the money will be brought to donate to both Operation Smile and Heartbeat Vietnam by the end of  school year.