We had a lot of fun with Billy Talent’s bass and guitar strings! We had so many that we have broken it up into two auctions and we just finished the first auction a few days ago. We had really chunky bass string bracelets, we had skinny guitar bracelets and we had ‘ends’ of the strings that had been wound around the guitar pegs and maintained a spiral shape, so we made earrings! We had some pretty funky jewelry items!
The band Tweeted and FB posted our auction links and despite having 40 items (our largest auction ever!) the fans were great and quite a few items had last minute bidding wars! We had people from not just Canada bidding, but also Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, and even Russia! Very cool.
Now that the dust has settled, we’ve sent 100% of the proceeds to World Vision; a staggering $1270 dollars! This is what we ‘bought’ from World Vision’s Canadian Gift Catalog.
- clean water for an entire family
- bicycle and repair kit (many doctors have to walk up to 10 miles a day to see patients too sick to come to the clinic – this saves time and allows more visits)
- Immunize an entire community
- Stock a medial clinic
- Supply a classroom for a year (x2! two classrooms!)
- School lunches for 100 kids for a month (50 kids, twice)
- Meds for 10 kids
- Educate a girl in need (x2) Girls are usually pulled from school at a young age as most can only afford to keep their boys in school
- Restore a child soldier (x2)
- Life saving nutrition for a starving child (3 months of food)
- 3 soccer balls for kids in school (x2) play time is very important as a kid too! Soccer balls are well used, and many kids find a way out of poverty through soccer teams
- and last but NOT least… We just HAD to buy a Billy Goat (Talent) !! Actually.. we bought 2 Billy Goats! 🙂
Many many thanks to you all, to the band and their very cool mgmt people for everything.. we have another auction! Almost as many strings left and we’ll be posting info about it around November – in time to scoop an early Christmas pressie or two. You guys are the best.
