- The highest bid was for the 'Mum's revive and survive' bag (with all the little buttons around a heart). It contained pamper treats for mums, and activities for children
- The two next highest bids were for the 'breakfast' bags. One with rolled oats, tea, raisin toast and marmalade, the other with muesli, orange juice, tasty snacks and marmalade.
- The 'chocoholic' bag was the one with the most bids (contents self-explanatory)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Six small businesses ...
The bag auction finished yesterday raising $458 to contribute to the microcredit project in West Timor. With an additional ten dollars, and an average loan of $78 to new businesses, this will be enough to support six families into sustainable incomes. The yPod team are still to meet with the Uniting International Mission staff to find out exactly where their money will be invested. I think this is an excellent result for a youth initiated and implemented project that was completed within 3 weeks. As a measure of our community values:
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What a really great project.
It really was. So good to have a supporting role only, sewing up the calico bags :-) They were so creative, and knew their market well.
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