Cleft Palate Concert

Last Saturday (November 26) the CAS activity Cleft Palate held a Battle of the Bands concert to raise funds for surgeries for children with cleft palate. The Library Service originally had plans to do a movie night to raise funds however, due to the low popularity many CAS activities had with movie night, Skylor and I decided to go in a different direction to raise funds for Room to Read.

Since Skylor was already involved with organizing Battle of the Bands with Bharat and Rasmus (playing guitar and being an MC), we collaborated with Mr. Pradeep, the supervisor of the Cleft Palate CAS, and organized that Library Service would be selling drinks at the concert. Each week leading up to the concert Skylor and I went over with our CAS what we would be selling, how much of it, who would get cups for the drinks, and the shifts people would take during the concert to sell drinks.

I'm really happy to say that in the end, all of the Library Service was at the concert and respectively came to their assigned shifts. Alo brought about 600 cups (A HUGE thanks to her!!) and didn't complain about helping with her shift -in fact no one complained! It was a big relief for every member to have helped since this was a new challenge I've undertaken. I have never organized something this big with the community and it was really fun in the end.

Library Service made a profit of about 19,000 Rs. from selling drinks at the concert and selling leftover drinks to the canteen. We wouldn't have been able to sell any drinks without the help of Mr. Pradeep providing them though!

In the end, library service managed to make more money than originally planned with the movie night to donate to Room to Read. It really is fulfilling to raise money for Room to Read since it allows for me to be engaged with an issue of global importance, education and reading for children.

Throughout the whole process instead of just collaborating with Skylor, I collaborated with others, in this case, a whole other CAS Activity with organizing a part of their project. It was really interesting and a great experience.