Let's Hope Gratitude Fundraiser

Vital Stats

San Marino, CA

  • people helped 8
  • People Doing It10

The Problem

The HOPE fund, helping orphans pursue education, helps orphans of the developing world reach their full potential through education. We have sites in India, Sudan, Guatemala, and the Philippines. Many of the children were rescued from bonded labor, tsunami victims, and others were found in dumpsters as infants.

Plan of Action

I partnered up with Turn Your World Around, a youth empowered organization, where I helped raise money for the HOPE fund, which stands for helping orphans pursue education. At first, I was just going to raise a couple hundred dollars for TYWA but I became very enthralled and it grew into something bigger than I thought at first and by the time I finished my website on October 4 2009, I had officially created my organization Let's Hope. At school, I made an informal group, where I had friends come during lunch to help me make jewelry which we sold at the fundraiser. Some of our pieces were sold for even $300. At the end of our campaign, and the fundraiser, we raised a little over our goal.