GIN: Dialysis Club - Fundraising Activity: Breakfast Sales

            In GIN: Dialysis Chapter group, we decided to carry on an activity that could help us to raise funds for supporting the Dialysis patients. Throughout two meetings, we decided to do a “breakfast sale” for teachers and students. Because our school starts early and several students and teachers have not enough time to eat breakfast, the fundraising group thought that it would be a great activity to earn high funds.

           As a leader of fundraising group, I had to bring all the members of fundraising group to participate well from planning to the actual activity. However, in the beginning, I had some difficulties in gathering the ideas from the members, of what menus would be good to sell in the breakfast sale. Also, distributing the roles equally was another hard thing that took me a long time to think about. Nevertheless, because every member actively participated, I was able to set the plan and prepare for the activity well. The menus for the breakfast sales were mainly focused on the foods that the school canteen does not provide: tuna rock rice, spam rice, fruit bowl, yogurt and baguette sandwiches.

           Fortunately, our breakfast sales went well. We were able to make a high profit from it, and teachers and students liked the food very much. Also, unlike my concern, everyone in the group did very well in selling the foods through using their own ways of advertising. It was a successful fundraising activity.

            The funds that we earned will directly go to the Dialysis patients. What we are planning on is to buy filters to every patient in the Dialysis clinic that we are regularly visiting. In the process of doing the fundraising activity, I was able to overcome the hardships and laziness by thinking of the patients who are in an insufficient condition, recycling the filters for 10 times. In grade 11, when I first joined the club, I did not have any sense of responsibility to the task that GIN: Dialysis chapter is doing. However, as I meet patients who suffer from the disease and do not have enough funds to care about their diseases, I began to think that I should not think this activity as an easy thing. I think what is important is the way I perceive the club and the patients. I want to continue raising funds for the patients with high responsibility towards the GIN club and the Dialysis patients.