Buy a pie for a goat.
Destaney Dean, a Grade 8 student at Carlin Elementary Middle School, has launched a fundraiser to help raise funds for a village in an economically poor part of the world.
She explains in a letter that she was one of a few “very lucky students” to be chosen to go to We Day B.C. in Vancouver in 2014.
“We Day is an inspiring day in which thousands of students from our province gather together in one large building with a whole bunch of celebrities. They tell their stories of how they have helped with different initiatives to help others in need.”
Dean was so inspired she is organizing her second “Goods for Goats” silent auction of baked goods to take place just before Valentine’s Day.
Proceeds will go to the “The goat that gives back” initiative that provides a dairy goat – a source of nutritious milk and sustainable income for a family.
“This allows them to have on average 16 glasses of milk each day,” Dean writes. “This will be my second year doing this. Last year together we raised $350! It was enough to buy seven goats for seven families.”
Because of provincial regulations, Dean can only auction off baked goods made in a commercial kitchen, but she says she is very appreciative of all the people offering to bake for the sale.
Items will be on display for bidding at the Mall at Piccadilly on Friday, Feb. 12. The winning bidders must pay for and pick up their selections by 5:30 p.m. that day.
Free the Children, of which We Day is a part, was founded by Craig Kielburger, then 12 years old, and his brother Marc who set out to free children and their families from poverty and exploitation. Me to We has projects in Kenya, India, Ecuador, rural China, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Tanzania.
