Raffles Junior College (RJC) held her annual Open House last Fri where members of the public and of course future Rafflesians can visit and explore the premises. Students volunteers from RJC who have been helping Riverkids for the past few months also created a fabulous booth (Look below! Look below!).
I've got one of the volunteers, Sherie Tan, to do a little write up on the day itself:
Hello!
We are a group of year 1 students from Raffles Junior College embarking on an end-of-year international service learning project with RiverKids! As part of our fundraising efforts, we set up a booth during our school’s open house last Friday (5th October) selling bags, paper flowers and small ornaments made by the women from Bloom, and also notebooks personally designed by one of our team members!
We decided to be creative and came up with a “slum” theme for our fundraising activities for the day! Our booth was designed to look like a mini-slum house, with a structure made out of poles built by the boys of our team, covered with a blue tarp. We also got team members to dress up like children collecting “aik-chai”, wearing torn t-shirts and carrying gunny sacks, going around collecting donations. The team did not want our fundraising efforts to be merely just about asking the public and our schoolmates for money, but we wanted them to know the cause that we are fighting for- that is to aid RiverKids in its effort to stop child trafficking in Cambodia. Our structure around our booth was definitely eye-catching and attention seeking and many came by to see what our booth was about!
In addition, we have put up several posters around school to publicise about our project cause and fundraising efforts! Posters include those on toilet doors with the words “don’t push me away” and on lift doors with the words “don’t tear me apart”. We will be organizing fundraising activities for the next two weeks in our school, with an improved business plan after our first fundraising experience during open house!
We decided to be creative and came up with a “slum” theme for our fundraising activities for the day! Our booth was designed to look like a mini-slum house, with a structure made out of poles built by the boys of our team, covered with a blue tarp. We also got team members to dress up like children collecting “aik-chai”, wearing torn t-shirts and carrying gunny sacks, going around collecting donations. The team did not want our fundraising efforts to be merely just about asking the public and our schoolmates for money, but we wanted them to know the cause that we are fighting for- that is to aid RiverKids in its effort to stop child trafficking in Cambodia. Our structure around our booth was definitely eye-catching and attention seeking and many came by to see what our booth was about!
In addition, we have put up several posters around school to publicise about our project cause and fundraising efforts! Posters include those on toilet doors with the words “don’t push me away” and on lift doors with the words “don’t tear me apart”. We will be organizing fundraising activities for the next two weeks in our school, with an improved business plan after our first fundraising experience during open house!
(: Wish us luck!
Our Booth!
Pretty handmade flowers! Many of our friends were really impressed when we told them they were hand made by the Cambodian women.
Our Notebooks!
One of our posters placed around school
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