For the past months, although we cannot conduct fundraisers physically, our group came a long way in terms of merchandise design and moving our future plans forward. We created a few more merchandise this year: except for our Surfaid stickers, this year, we have implemented masks and swimming caps designed for our swimming team. Below is my reflection on the goals I set myself at the beginning of the year.

#LO6 Global Value: Surfaid, being a global organization, takes global value very seriously. As the enterprise officer, when helping the chair to create and develop new ideas for merchandise, I always conduct research and discuss with the service office on whether the supplier has unethical practices or practices that hurt our kept global value. We have then narrowed the suppliers down, in which we are contacting them for further information.

#LO7 Ethics: As mentioned above, we take ethical decisions very seriously as a group. Since we cannot do fundraising events in the school for the past months, we have shifted our focus into developing merchandise. “Merchandise is dangerous,” says staff from the service department, as they say, that every piece of good that we sell has to be ethical, and that might be hard in this modern, industrialized world of manufacturing. But fortunately, after research and meeting with the Surfaid headquarters, we have found companies that are school-approved and ethical.

I look forward to our new merchandise, and hopefully, we can host fundraising events in the next few months!