On the 25th and 27th February, in particular being the Thursday and Saturday nights of the University of Otago's "O Week" , members of Rotary Club of Dunedin Central, Dunedin Rotaract and Dunedin New Rotary Generation ran a fundraiser BBQ on George Street, Dunedin. The object was to raise funds towards the cost of sending a volunteer team to Thailand mid-November to help with a kitchen refurbishment at the Rescue Mission for Children centre in Mae Suai. Our target consumer demographic were the hungry students who had recently returned to Dunedin, and were all out on Saturday night, as part of “O Week” celebrations. We set up around 10:30 p.m and our food supplies were completely exhausted by 2:42 a.m on Sunday morning. Some of us were really pleased to get to bed just before 4a.m!! During the night we spoke to hundreds of students about “Project Starfish” and the work we are doing to help children in SE Asia who are at risk of abduction into child slavery, and the relationship we have with Rescue Mission for Children, who are one of the organisations we support. There was a lot of interest, and many people thanked us for our work to help the children who have no voice in the world. This was such a success that we're planning on holding more bbqs down George St during the upcoming "Re-Ori Week", 11th-16th July, so if you're in the area pop on down for a good feed and even better chat.
Overall it was an amazing example of what we can do when our Rotary “family” all pull together, well done guys!
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Lucy
5/17/2016 03:21:11 am
They look like happy customers!
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