Alright, so for the first month of STAND meetings we have been preparing things for an event called "STAND's Spread the Love Sponsorship" which is based on an idea I had after talking to Nicholas Kristof. Kristof told me (and described quite well in his book, "Half the Sky") that the best way to get people involved is to get things down to a very, very specific and personal level. So, instead of having an event where we say "this money will go to help Kenyan children" we instead have an event where we say "this money will go to this Kenyan child." This, of course, is a lot more work than saying everything in third person, but Kristof believed quite strongly it would make a difference.
Fortunately, with Cameron and Gina's trip to Kenya this December we were able to have pictures of specific children, complete with a list of facts about them and their dreams. For the event, we have been showing people specific children they could sponsor and have been asking them for 20 dollar donations, which is just about enough money to send a Kenyan child to school for a year.
I am happy to say that Kristof has thus far been very, very right!
We have just finished our first day of the sponsorship and we have already earned 300 dollars! This is enough to send 15 kids to school for a year- which is pretty freakin' glorious for a 3 hour period! Simple math tells me that we made 100 dollars an hour, which is about 93 dollars more an hour than I'll ever get paid.
Jest aside, this has been a very successful day, and I hope the rest of the week yields similar results!
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