2nd Fundraising
2010/06/01 by werun4africa
For Miki was in Denmark in relation to matter of visa, our fundraising was started with 4 members in Columbus, Ohio. In Columbus, we tried many things. Though that was our second fundraising, our first one was mainly ‘Site Finding (for clothes-collection box)’ so we didn’t have that much experiences and skills about fundraising. We’ve tried to do in front of Mexican markets with Anna’s help (even the only one thing we can say in Spanish was “Hola, Comestias”), street fundraising in downtown at evening time, and also in university. And I was playing my Korean instrument in Korean restaurant for fundraising that I really wanted to do before. Sometimes those attempts were working, but some of them were not working and even we were kicked out from one place, so I was so sad and tired. But I could keep going with energy so that there were my good members and some people helping and supporting us.
About Philadelphia, our second destination, we have a lot of funny things to say. First of all, changing the city from Cleveland into Philadelphia, a lot of food donation including Korean, and staying accidentally at a house of a pastor whose son is Korean famous singer. I really want to say every episode in detail, but I’m sorry that the paper has limit. So anyone who wants to know more can come to me.
In Pittsburgh, our third city, we finally met Miki from Denmark. We’re so glad and could be refreshed that she was highly motivated and energetic. With help and feeding of our hosts that family of Miki’s friend, Phillipe, and the daily, no, every time kiss of Papa of him, we could do fundraising in good mood.
In this fundraising, we saw, felt, and learned many things. Sometimes we’re so exhausted and some people made us angry with bad words, but many times we were happy and lauphing out with good people and funny episode. So I’ll remember that words in next fundraising “Just forget bad people and bad words, but never forget nice people.” as I did in last fundraising.
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