LO3: Initiative – Planning & Initiating activities
LO5: Collaboration – Working together to achieve an outcome
Holiday Fair is an event that we participate yearly to sell our GC related products, namely Kura Kura wooden handicrafts.
As we identified during the two service trips in FIB last year that one of the solutions for the Panglong village we are supporting to develop a more sustainable employment is to help them sell Kura Kura, wooden handicrafts made by one of the villagers and to spread the story behind Kura Kura, we decided to market different kinds of those handicrafts at Holiday Fair. We did some research on the popularity of various products and from someone who used to be in FIB, we heard that wooden sharks, turtles, and seahorses are the most popular among the students in our school. Hence, we ordered about twenty products in total. Through collaboration, we set reasonable prices for each product by voting for how much everyone was willing to pay for it and finding the prices the previous FIB sold at. In addition, we considered that advertisement was pivotal, so we made a poster and price list to spread the awareness of our GC, as well as the NGO, the specific project, and village we were supporting. (LO3, LO5)
Since I had SEASAC Golf in Bangkok several days before, during and after the event, I was not able to take charge of the actual stall set up and selling. Therefore, I handed over the task to our GC’s vice chair and sent all the tasks of each individual to all GC members. However, something unexpected happened on the event day. When two of our members, who were responsible for the first slot got to our stall, they found that nothing was set up; we had no banners, no price list, and no tablecloth. Because of some miscommunication, the people who were supposed to set up didn’t come the day before the event. Those members tried to come up with some solutions, printing out our GC posters to be the banner and etc. Fortunately, the result came good. We almost sold out all our products. Through this event, I got a lesson that before the event, I needed to be more active in communicating with the person that I passed tasks to if I wouldn’t be present on the day; I should tell the person specifically and detailedly about every point, just in case.
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