Sunday, August 29, 2010

Christmas Packages


Many of you have been anxiously awaiting the announcement of the Christmas Package Fundraiser. For those who have no idea what this is, I will explain in a minute. For those of you who participated in the Summer Reading Packages at the beginning of the year, pay attention to the changes. Here is the program for Christmas:

The object of the Christmas packages is not just to provide our children with nice gifts for Christmas and ship them at a group rate... It is, also, a fundraiser. 100% of the money goes directly to our MAC fundraisers!! This should get several fundraisers completed in record time and provide families with special needs gifts.

I will be posting pictures of the items that are for sale, and I will be posting them grouped together by type- one post with choices of books, one post with choices of bracelets, one post with choices of toys, etc... The posts will start tonight!!!

Now, here are the changes: To order these items, you will send an e-mail to Heather G and Holly G at hgriffins85@yahoo.com. They will keep track of which items are available and let you know if all of the items yo requested are available. Once you have your merchandise total based on availability of the items, they will let you know which fundraiser to donate to. It will always be the current fundraiser, but since there are two, they will be having one person donate to one fundraiser while the next person donates to the other fundraiser. This way it will be an even distribution. As one fundraiser completes, we will launch the next in line to donate to and so on.

Now, for the shipping. Once all of the orders are received for one country, I will weigh each person's items. Based on the total weight, I will divide the cost of shipping according to the weight of each person's group of items. Heather and Holly will let every one know what their shipping total is, and they will give you a paypal address to send payment to. Once everyone has paid their share of the shipping, the package will be shipped. We would like to only take a few days for each country, so this will move rather quickly. You will be told what country we are doing and the due date for orders as soon as the fundraiser starts (later tonight).

Now, for those of you who sponsor with CHILDHOPE Zambia, you will get a chance to order as well. However, those donations will go toward the food and medical account to purchase mosquito nets and food at distribution.

For those of you who sponsor with CI in Zambia and Manila, Philippines, those centers will not be getting a package. Since they still have not confirmed receipt of the packages that were sent earlier this year, I do not want to send an additional package for it to get lost too! Sorry :o(

Ok, stay tuned for pictures of the items for sale! Let's get this party started!!

1 comment:

Molly said...

Of course two of my three kids are in Zambia and Manila...just my luck ;) Still, though, I'll be keeping an eye out for stuff for my girl in Quezon City.

Packages to Zambia usually take a few months to get to the CI center, which is probably what's up with those. Frustrating, but I hope they finally turn up!