Send Me To Malawi!

[UnfairBear]

Hey guys!

Some of you already know this, but as part of my college work, I'm volunteering to go to Malawi next Easter for 6 weeks. I'll pretty much be working as an IT expert and a teacher or teaching assistant in the Technical College in Mzuzu. I'll also be working with Wells For Zoe, who are a charity who provide clean water wells and other development help to rural communities in Malawi. I'm so lucky to have this opportunity and I'm EXCITEEEED.

Anyway, to be able to go, I have to raise €2225, (about $2730), €1000 ($1230) of which I need by the end of October to pay for flights. I'll be doing fundraisers and getting sponsorship and all sorts of stuff locally. I also made a website with loads of information and functionality for people to donate online through paypal.

The website is www.sendmetomalawi.com. Go visit if you wanna find out more! I also made a facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Send-Jean-to-Malawi/128141763889747?v=wall wewt

I'm appealing to you guys for three things:

1: I need monies! If you or your parents or whoever can donate even a couple of dollars or euro I'd be eternally grateful! I will give you ONE MILLION #COOKIES. Promise! Of course I understand completely if you can't do this, so no worries =)

2: Spread the word! Tell people about this project, encourage them to visit my site, donate, attend events if they can. The more people know about what I'm doing, the faster I can raise money and go help the crap outta some Malawians!

3: I wanna try and have some other online appeals, and I want you guys to help me with that, cause you have this weird tendency to be awesome. I wanna start some smaller projects to raise money, so if you have any ideas, let me know! I guess this thread is the sort of super-project and the other ones would be sub-projects. Yeah. That's my justification for putting this in the projects forum. Take THAT admins! (<3)

Any help you guys can give would make me really really really happy. So happy that I might explode in a huge wave of rainbows and butterflies and tangerines and Cortney's boobs!

So, any ideas?

[velvetdivorce]

I wish I could help, but my shitty job jibbed me and aren't paying me.

What kind of events will you be doing?

[UnfairBear]

That's ok =)

Here's a list of stuff we're thinking of doing. its copied diectly from our google wave so its a little unorganised =P

* Bag-Packing
* Christmas Raffle
* Christmas Hampers
* Marathon Runs
* Collection Boxes in shops.
* The Pancake Idea
* Bake Sale
# Get sponsored to do things, like shaving our your heads, or walking the Wiclow Way (Or Marathon Runs as Marc said)
# Table Quizzes
* Ask Richard Lawlor (one of our lecturers) if he will shave his mustache if we can raise X amount

* Get in touch with a christmas tree wholesaler and see if it's possible to start our own xmas tree business.Overhead could be costly for this but if we can work something out it could be very profitable. www.dirl.com/ictg/sell.htm

* Too add to the bake sale idea, maybe people who buy the treats could be given a raffle ticket and after X amount of time we could raffle a big ass tastey cake(maybe donated by a kind baker )

* Write to HP/Intel/IMBM/Microsoft any company at all relating to computer science, and see if they can sponsor us/help in raising funds.

* And similar to bag packing, ask a garage owner if they would be kind enough to allow for us to act as petrol pump attendants, car owners might be kind enough to make a small donation for our services.
# Auction of promises (like auctioning off people for dates. that would be so fun xD)
# have a bbq and sell food
# tidy peoples' bedrooms for money (lol)
# bring & buy sales
# computer games marathon. i like that one. a lot.<- for this we could do a 24 hour gaming sesh live streamed
# extreme ironing. i have no idea what that is but it sounds BAD-ASS.
# odd jobs? well i spose we could go around to people's doors and ask them if they have any odd jobs that need doing for a small fee.
# record breaking attempt
# loads of competitions
# CAROL SINGING
"we could try and get some pumpkins wholesale and sell door to door. we could also have a pumpkin carving compettition and the way you vote for the best is you put some money on your favorites and the one who has the most money put on it wins. You could do the same thing for a costume competition. We keep all the money if i didn't make that clear..."

Those are all the irl things we're thinking of. I just need some help thinking of fundraisers that can be implemented online now >.>

[velvetdivorce]

Jun 24, 2010 8:07:16 GMT -5 UnfairBear said:

# tidy peoples' bedrooms for money (lol)

Seriously? Haha! I'd pay people to stay out of mine. The cups full of cigarette butts and dirty underwear everywhere... Yeuch!
Let's hope for your sake that I'm an exception and not everyone is messy and repulsive as I am!

[bombmaniac]

^ i lol'd

[UnfairBear]

Well, the skankier the rooms the more we can charge! Hehehe

[sircolesif]

holycrap your from ireland thats effin awesome

[UnfairBear]

owat so you are you. WHOAREYOUINACITYOFONEMILLIONIMSUREIKNOWWHOYOUARE D:

[sircolesif]

just sayin

[UnfairBear]

you didnt answer my highly compressed question.

[sircolesif]

im cole edison booze

[UnfairBear]

ok i dont know who you are *disappoint*

[click3tyclick]

Jun 25, 2010 11:49:14 GMT -5 sircolesif said:

booze

Damn right, you're Irish.

[sircolesif]

yea i always thought that was ironic

[UnfairBear]

yea yea, were all alcoholics.

back on topic!

nobody has any ideas they wanna help with? =(

[Sean]

I saw some people do a 5 day non sleep (all at once anyway) gameathon live streamed. They made about $1000 for some charity

[UnfairBear]

wow 5 days without sleep? we were gonna do that but for one day. maybe we could pull of 2 or 3. how many of them did it?

[UnfairBear]

www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Send-Jean-to-Malawi/128141763889747 its a facebook page! yay! if you like it, ill like you! =D

[Sean]

Jun 29, 2010 4:33:19 GMT -5 UnfairBear said:

wow 5 days without sleep? we were gonna do that but for one day. maybe we could pull of 2 or 3. how many of them did it?

LOL, there was 3 of them and they took it in terns to sleep. I didn't know how to explain it better

[NormanTheOne]

This is really awesome! I wish you the best of luck getting money, someone so determined to go do good and be actually useful to someone that really needs it really does deserve to go.