GECKO INC. BAKE SALE

Gecko Inc completed their first fund raiser, a bake sale. We had spent so much time planning the trip up north, and planning the visit to osc that we had forgotten about the financial aspects and rushed to get our first fundraiser in. We each baked and cooked various foods and snacks and had the bake sale on a wednesday. It ended up being more of a success than we expected and a great way to start off our fundraising. We managed to sell all our products in the duration of break and lunch. We raised around 8000rs. We planned to use this money for our trip up to Killinochchi next semester as we calculated the amount of money needed for transportation, hotel accommodation, food, etc. However, later we found out that service groups are not actually allowed to have fundraisers for trips and that we'd need to pay for that personally. So, this left us to problem solve what we would be using the raised money from fund raisers for. Though we have not come up with a solution yet, we will continue to strive towards planning the trip though we are not required to raise money for that anymore. This trip is very important to our cas group, and as a leader I am determined to make sure that we will be able to go on it and continue making a difference up north with the OSC community to try and improve lives. After having been up there and seeing the lack of development and the schooling system I realized that it is important for our service group to be more involved and try to regularly visit these places and contribute to their development after the war. Perhaps we can use this bake sale money to buy more equipment or something else which will make a difference to our intended school visits. Nontheless, this fundraiser was a good start for our service group to begin getting in action and collaborating with each other to start contributing to our service's goal to help the communities in Killinochchi.