After a year of working with the Surfaid Global Concern Group, this would be a place to reflect on my progress throughout the year.

This year was a year full of challenges and achievements, we planned and hosted fundraising events, through selling merchandise, and swimming “virtually” to raise funds. Every group member actively contributed to discussions around these May projects. As the enterprise officer of the group, I contributed in ways I can by helping to set up stalls and calculating merchandise counts/variety. Although this year’s fund was less than other years due to the pandemic, we still raised a considerable amount, which surprised everyone in our group and in our school community.

#LO6 Global Value: Surfaid has had global value in mind since its creation. We focus on enhancing the lives of people on remote islands of Indonesia through active fundraising and direct care (although not this year due to the pandemic). It does not stop there, for our fundraising events, all products sold are proven to have a clean and sustainable supply chain, including the stall we hold this year.

#LO7 Ethics: We put ethics into our consideration when making any decisions. For instance, all our merchandise are ethically sourced. And that all our fundraising events are carefully taking into consideration of their impacts and implications.

I look forward to next year’s Surfaid, and I am very curious to see what will happen then!