What is Act2Aid?

Act2Aid is a small but enthusiastic student group, dedicated to raising money for charity.

We use a number of different methods to raise money – all kinds of fundraisers, and we rely heavily on donations as well. A huge thank you goes to all those who are already donating.

We always appreciate any kind of help, either  practical or financial.

If you would like to help, we meet every Thursday lunchtime in Room 43.

These meetings are also good experience if you are planning to pursue a career in business.

February 2010 
  
Our main focus this month has been helping the International Cooking Group with their Heart for Haiti appeal, which is raising money to rebuild and equip a school destroyed in January's earthquake. We've helped them sell cakes and provide tea and coffee at the Open Day, an endeavour which raised 659.22 euros, and also with their bake sale, which raised 1602.50 euros. This means that the total amount of money raised for Haiti with these two events was 2261.72 euros. 
  
However, Haiti hasn't quite taken all of our attention this month. We also gave 300 euros to Hands up...for Kids, a project helping schoolchildren on Lamu Island and the neighbouring islands in Kenya by providing them with clean water and sanitation. We have already received a thank you letter from this charity, detailing what they plan to do with the money, which is to buy some sports equipment for the schools because they want to branch out in what they want to do to help the children. This letter will hopefully go up on our notice board shortly.  

We also recently received a letter from our Sponsor Child, Edgan Lopez Meija, which will go up on our notice board shortly. 
  
Nor does it stop there. We’re constantly thinking of new ideas as to what to do with our money and with your continued support, we can sponsor even more organisations in even more countries.  
  

Remember: Your Money makes a difference!

http://hands-up-lamu.org/

Thanks to your help, we recently made € 160 off our Santa Hat sales, which we have already donated to the Charity that Live Aid supported this year, Ubihapi, to help finance the building of a new school for poor children in Lahore in Pakistan.

We are also selling CDs with about 80 photographs of this year’s Live Aid on them. They’re great things to have as memories and they’re only € 2 each, so if you’d like to order one, please get in touch with one of us as soon as possible.

Given the recent earthquake in Haiti, we have decided to donate €650 to help relief efforts there.

Of course, it doesn’t stop there! We’re constantly thinking of new ideas as to what to do with our money and with your continued support, we can sponsor even more organisations in even more countries.

Your Money makes a difference!