As millions marked World Children’s Day on Saturday, 20 Nov., Cayman’s students joined forces with the National Children’s Voluntary Organisation as they launched their new fundraising campaign, ’20 Days for 20K’.
The campaign aims to raise $20,000, starting on the UN-established World Children’s Day, which promotes improving children’s welfare.
NCVO CEO Paola Juarez-Robinson, in a brief statement to the Cayman Compass on the fundraising campaign, said students are doing their community volunteer hours this semester to support the local non-profit.
NCVO oversees the Jack and Jill Nursery, Miss Nadine’s Pre-school, and the Nadine Andreas Residential Foster Home – a residential facility which exclusively serves children in need of care and protection.
Juarez-Robinson said PTAs and teachers “promptly acted upon the need of support because NCVO could not host the annual telethon and our charity golf tournament” this year.
On Saturday, children from different schools were out at local supermarkets with their green donation cans in hand, appealing for support under the NCVO’s slogan for Saturday, ‘It is our date. Please, donate’.
Juarez-Robinson, ahead of the campaign launch, said the students were going to coordinate split shifts outside major supermarkets, shops and Cayman Bay’s holiday market.
John Gray High School teacher Marlene Holder-Ellis, and students from her class were among those shaking their cans for NCVO.
She said it was a good way for the students to get their community service hours as well as help a worthy charity.
“Our kids have been fantastic as well. Our children from John Gray High School have been here from Saturday morning. They have taken shifts and they have definitely been collecting funds and they are working towards community service hours and they’re also giving back to their communities. The response has been extremely amazing,” she said.
The NCVO also has a QR code which, when scanned, takes the user to the NPO’s website for online donations.
Holder-Ellis said people were willing to donate, especially when they knew what the cause was.
“The funds are actually are going to be dedicated, as you’ll see on the poster, to the education and wellbeing of the children and the families of the Cayman Islands. The aim is in support of some of our nurseries and preschools,” she said.
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