Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Earrings for Africa! - Update

(Recap: Earrings for Africa! is a fundraising project that my good friend Jenna is spearheading to help me as I prepare to take off on EWB's dime)

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who joined the Facebook group, invited friends, or bought jewelry in these first two weeks. I'm really, really grateful for your support.

Here's a brief update, by the numbers:
Day 14
Number of people in the facebook group: 38
Number of items created (including several non-earrings andthanks to the efforts of a number of my crafty friends): 35
Number of items sold (thanks to the support of all kinds of wonderful people): 16
Funds raised so far: $106

If you know of anyone who is not on facebook that might be interested in supporting our fundraising efforts (or just likes shiny jewelry), please feel free to get them to email me. I'd be happy to send them photos via the bits of the internet that aren't facebook.

Thanks again for your support! Those are amazing results for two weeks in the summer.
I'll post another update in another couple of weeks (which will hopefully include some updates that involve me doing other stuff to raise the funds).




PS: No word on where or what yet. I expect to hear back in the next two weeks or so.
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Mustafa Hirji said...

Earings and trinkets for sale: Good.
Your friends buying earings and trinkets: Excellent.

Facbook: Evil!!!

August 20, 2008 at 7:45 AM

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