Handmade Cards Selling Event for Charity in TCSJ

This is the first event i organise in Taylor's College Subang Jaya and it is also the last one. I'll be leaving this college soon, so this event is memorable and valueble to me. I want to organise this event to raise fund for charity under Leo Club of TCSJ. The profit earned will all be given to drug rehabilitation centre and home for disabled. When i first heard of the teacher's suggestion of event involving selling cards, i was very interested with her idea, and voluntarily took this event because i enjoy making cards so much. So this is how it is started.



Handmade banner for handmade cards sales at booth



With the support of another Kelly ( which form a Kelly "square" team ourselves), Kelly Lee, we got this event and made ourselves the organizing chairpersons. Before selling the cards, we have to write a proposal regarding the event and sent to the Student Development Center to get approval first. In the proposal, we have to give an estimated profit for the event. And i said: "RM500". Some would think that its quite a large sum, and unreachable by only selling cards but because of this, Kellys' team swore to meet the target to show everyone that we can do it!



Birthday wishes/Thank you/ anything message you like! (made by myself)



Our teacher adviser, who also suggested this event, supplied over 100 handmade cards, made by her relative from Australia for the sales. It is sort of like a donation in the form of cards for the event as there are no expenses for it. She also provided her coloured papers for me to make cards for the sales. At first it was quite slow, i only managed to make about 2 or 3 cards in 5 hours. Later on, with lots of practice, 3 hours 10 cards.

Multipurpose mini cards (made by myself)

Kennel (made by myself)

Mothers' Day card (made by myself)

"Show Your Love" cards (made by myself)

We sold the cards personally to the students through distribution to Leo members throughout April and May. To speed up the sales, we booked a booth beside the front gate of TC. On 11th to 13th of May 2011, with all the posters, cards and preparations ready, we set up the booth and promoted the cards to the students who visit the booth. I was trilled by the good response. In such a short period, we managed to earn about RM300.

Cards, posters and preparations for the booth sales

Sonia promoting cards
( hi, do you want to buy some cards? one for RM3.50, three for RM10, these are RM5 each)



Our booth, cards supplied by teacher (left), cards made by me (right)



Day 1, everybody smile!
(From left: Wen Jie, Jih Dar, Sidhesh, "Kelly Lee, Kelly Wong", Sonia)



Me, busy making cards




Making Cards at booth (Limited stock!)



Our booth Day 3

The students choosing cards with Sidhesh and Sonia

In these one and a half months, we earned around RM 600 for charity (we reached our target! ). Although some may think it is a small amount but for all of us who put our effort in the event, we are proud of it. (p/s: I break my record, i've made 71 cards or More?)

Thanks to Kelly, Sidhesh, Sonia and other Leo members that helped. I will remember our great time promoting and selling cards together. ( hi, do you want to buy some cards? one for RM3.50, three for RM10, these are RM5 each)