Growing Snowflowers

PROJECT (RED) MAGIC TICKET



When Mike & I talked about adding another child to our family, we initially wanted to wait a year or two after Piper had come home. Well, as many of you know, the China adoption process has changed considerably since we adopted Piper and because of the lengthened wait times and new restrictions we felt we had to move quickly and get our paperwork to China asap - and more importantly, before the new restrictions came into play. So before the one year anniversary of Piper being home we started the process.

We knew it wasn't going to be easy finding the financial resources to support a second adoption, but we wanted to move ahead and we kept our fingers and toes crossed that we would be able to be 'creative' when the time came.

We are new to 'fundraising' but I've been dipping my fingers into the art of raising money for good causes...I started with organizing a fund drive for Pipers orphanage in 2005, our travel group raised almost $700 and purchased water tanks for the SWI, giving them the much needed security of fresh clean water in times of drought or water shortages.

We then signed up for the nutrition donation program for the orphanage where Piper lived, LWB a non-profit agency that organizes nutrition and medical charitable programs throughout orphanages in China.

More recently I was able to get several great artisans to donate products & services for our agency's fundraiser in August, this time the revenue generated from these donations will help aid training for orphanage workers in rural China.

So, as you can see, we have been busy. We joined a fundraising for adoption group in the hope of finding ideas for raising money for our next adoption but by using ideas that we think are not purely about 'us'. I thought long and hard, and here is our first official fundraiser...

A (RED) Apple Ipod, 4GB(1000 songs)!!!!!

We are selling tickets to raise money for the orphanage donation and will also donate $1 dollar from each ticket sale to the (RED) project for Africa. Read more about (RED) in the important link section.

We decided we'd sell 150 tickets to family and friends, and charge $5 a ticket. We will keep the auction open until we sell all 150 tickets and then we will draw the winner. $150 of the proceeds will go to the (RED) project.

For $5 you will have a 1 in 150 chance of winning a fantastic red 4GB ipod...now even Vegas can't beat those odds.

To join in the fun, purchase any number of tickets through our chipin, then send a message with your email and I will email you a number between 1-150. I will keep a record of all the names and numbers.

If this works, we'll try another fundraiser later on down the track.

Thanks for all your support, we can't wait to announce the winner!