LO2: Challenge – Undertaken new challenges & developing new skills
LO5: Collaboration – Working together to achieve an outcome
Family Festival was pretty successful at last, even though we were facing some obstacles during the planning and on the actual event day.
In January, we tried to order some Kura Kura products to sell on Family Festival. We came in consensus on the products we would like to order, including wooden sharks, which were extremely popular on the last few events, and some other newly developed ornaments. Nonetheless, we were informed that the person who was making the handicrafts were not able to receive orders due to some family issues in late February; this meant that we would not have any new products to sell on Family Festival at our stall. We only had about fifteen plain wooden eggs and 2 wooden seahorses left in the stock. Wooden eggs were bought for the egg painting contest we held in the last two years and we were not allowed to set up our own activity (egg painting contest) this year due to event management. We thought that no one would actually buy the plain wooden eggs since they did not look really good without decoration, so we did not want to sell them at the event. However, in the meanwhile, we did not want to waste an opportunity to spread awareness of the Kura Kura handicrafts and the project we were supporting and to raise funds. We were in the dilemma and tried really hard to find a solution.
Here came the significance of collaboration, I divided the GC into several small groups and let them discuss and research the ways we could do. One of our members proposed that we could decorate on several wooden eggs – draw some well-known figures on the front side and print out the logo of our GC/NGO on the back, so that the eggs would be more attractive. And even for those eggs that were not decorated, consumers would be more likely to buy them after they saw the decorated ones and would desire to paint the eggs themselves as well.
This solution was really effective at first, but later, we were informed by the service department that we were not allowed to sell those painted eggs since we did not get permission from the NGO to decorate and use its logo on its product. Although we tried hard to communicate with the service department and contact the NGO we were supporting, we still were not able to sell those painted ones. But still, the plain wooden eggs were more popular than we expected and we raised a reasonable amount of funds through selling them and let more people know about our projects through posters, handouts, and banners.
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