What´s in the jar?

In the third turn my class decided to organize a project in order to raise money for supporting a charity. Finally after many time we decided to support Caritas and we did a project called “what´s in the jar?”.

At the beginning of the turn we divided the class in many small groups. Each group had an idea for supporting different charity. My charity was “Save the children” and we wanted to organize a karaoke.

Then we had to look for information of these charities and explain it in a power point to our class. Finally when the class knew a lot of information about all the charities we voted, the winner was the project of “what´s in the jar “supporting Caritas.

It consisted in filling up a jar with candies and showing it to everybody in the school. People had to guess how many candies were in the jar. You just had to pay one euro for participating and the winner would get all the candies! Of course all the money we got was going to Caritas.

Once we knew the project we had to ask for permission to the principal so we wrote a formal letter explaining everything to him and he liked the idea a lot.

When we had the permission we started organizing everything.  Each person had a task, making tickets, designing posters, counting sweets… I had to prepare everything before the break and counting some sweets too.

Many people participated, and a representative from Caritas came to help us!

At the end we collected more than one hundred of euros. There were 877 candies in the jar and Paula Ruiz García got all of them.

I think this project has been a really good idea. For me it´s the best activity we have done in all the course because we have learned a lot and we have helped many people. Well maybe one hundred of euros isn´t much money for a charity but I think many people has realized that helping others is rewarding and they will try to support more charities.