22nd of October, 19th, 26th of November and 3rd of December 2009
CAS element: Service
Time: 8 hours
This year the recycling group wants to make this school project international. We want our program to have a positive effect beyond the school campus. We wish this project could be part of a global movement toward sustainability. Right now we are in contact with a charitable association in India, the Lion's Club. We want to collect money within the school premises and donate it to this association. In return, it has promised to plant trees with our donations, to counter the deforestation in some areas of India. As a group we, therefore, decided to organize a candy gram event in the school before the Christmas Holidays.
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th of December 2009
CAS element: Service
Time: 14 hours
For the past two weeks the recycling group and I have been work hard daily to print the different cards and sell them. We have decided to make two kind of cards, black and white ones for one euro and colored ones for two euros. If you buy a colored candy gram you
will send your friends a bigger bag of candy with a Ferrero Rocher. Everyday throughout the week, we went around the different homerooms in school to inform and sell as much candy grams as possible. At first only the elementary school bought significant amounts, where as the middle and high school seemed more reserved to chip in a euro or two. On the first Thursday, we decided to start packing some of the candy grams. We adopted a chain like production and where able to make them quickly , that is what we thought at the time. The next week, we continued on selling and this time much more students in the middle and high school seemed to be willing to contribute. We actually reached selling records and quickly ran out of cards to sell. On the next Thursday, we continued to pack the candy grams and rapidly realized that we will have to i
ncrease our production by at least three, compared to last week, so that we can finish to pack the about 600 candy grams that we sold and distribute then the next day. Fortunately we had many volunteers that offered their help and enable us to finish everything although late in the evening. The next day our last task was to go in each homeroom and distribute the candy grams. I very much enjoyed this part because as you can inside the room all the eyes were on you, waiting impatiently to overhear their name. Especially with the younger ones, the expression of pure joy on their face when they were given their price was worth all the effort that this project required. To sum up, the recycling team was able to collect about 650 euros of donation for the Lion's Club association in India.
For the past two weeks the recycling group and I have been work hard daily to print the different cards and sell them. We have decided to make two kind of cards, black and white ones for one euro and colored ones for two euros. If you buy a colored candy gram you
will send your friends a bigger bag of candy with a Ferrero Rocher. Everyday throughout the week, we went around the different homerooms in school to inform and sell as much candy grams as possible. At first only the elementary school bought significant amounts, where as the middle and high school seemed more reserved to chip in a euro or two. On the first Thursday, we decided to start packing some of the candy grams. We adopted a chain like production and where able to make them quickly , that is what we thought at the time. The next week, we continued on selling and this time much more students in the middle and high school seemed to be willing to contribute. We actually reached selling records and quickly ran out of cards to sell. On the next Thursday, we continued to pack the candy grams and rapidly realized that we will have to i
ncrease our production by at least three, compared to last week, so that we can finish to pack the about 600 candy grams that we sold and distribute then the next day. Fortunately we had many volunteers that offered their help and enable us to finish everything although late in the evening. The next day our last task was to go in each homeroom and distribute the candy grams. I very much enjoyed this part because as you can inside the room all the eyes were on you, waiting impatiently to overhear their name. Especially with the younger ones, the expression of pure joy on their face when they were given their price was worth all the effort that this project required. To sum up, the recycling team was able to collect about 650 euros of donation for the Lion's Club association in India. 