Donut Fundraiser!

Hi, this is Tammy, from Canada. My sister Melissa works with Beyond Ourselves. We, my mom, my two boys and I were excited to partner with Beyond Ourselves and have our second annual donut fundraiser which was held Thursday, January 23rd. Last year everyone was so generous and we were able to purchase a pair of socks for every child in their three schools. This year the funds would go towards sending students to high school. (They were handing out 40 scholarships but still needed funds for 17 students.) $120 would send a student to school for a year or $10 would cover a month. I posted our fundraiser on Instagram, Facebook and sent out an email and knew God would do the rest. 

My boys loved helping last year and I took them out of school for the day again. School is very important but we loved the fact that they wanted to give of their time and help, with nothing in return other than being able to bless others. Plus we knew that if it was anything like last year, we would need their help:) We started Thursday morning and the orders kept coming. By lunch time we had 26 dozen made. We quickly realized we would have to add a second day as we could not get all the orders done in one day. My mom made all the dough, Cole and Kade helped roll out the dough and cut all the donuts. I fried the donuts and got the orders together. We had a very good system going and it went smoothly. We kept working and the donations kept coming in. People were so generous it brought me to tears. One lady didn't want any donuts, but wrote a cheque to send 2 children to school. Amazing. At the end of the day we had made 44 dozen. 

 

What was also exciting and unexpected was that there were a few teachers who ordered donuts for their class and used this fundraiser as a lesson to teach about the importance of giving as well as teaching them about Zambia. Well done teachers!

Monday morning my mom and I were back at it. Excited to see what God had in store for the day. We were already blown away at our donations. It was around the same number we had finished off at last year and we still had a whole day to go. We had received orders for 14 dozen donuts but knew we could easily make more. We felt we couldn't say no to anyone who wanted to help and give. So I once again posted on Facebook and Instagram and at the end of the day we had made 33 dozen donuts. We smelled like donuts, we were covered in flour and icing sugar and oil splatters, but our hearts were overflowing. A huge THANK YOU to everyone who donated!! Together we helped change the lives of 17 students, who will now be attending high school!

Some of the boys that received a scholarship!