Saw this today, sorry if it's old or already been posted:
Kids get down to business
Enterprising students at a Southside boys’ school recently launched a business exhibition to raise funds to help underprivileged children both at home and abroad.
Sixth class boys in the CBC Junior School Monkstown laid out their stalls in the twelfth year of the exhibition that had been opened by Dún Laoghaire TD and Education Minister, Mary Hanafin, earlier this month.
The exhibition marked the end of a three-month project, which was launched by Ali Hewson and involved 14 companies each made up of two boys.
The companies displayed its products and services and business plan with the day’s proceeds going to the school’s Children Helping Children Fund. So far this year a staggering e21,801 has been raised.
The big-hearted boys received donations, arranged fun days, sold school magazines and donated confirmation money to add to the money raised.
This year the proceeds from the exhibition will go towards funding the transport of Chernobyl children to Ireland, valuable research into Epidermolyis, a painful skin disorder suffered by the butterfly children - Debra Ireland Fund and the provision of medical supplies and school fees for poverty stricken children in several African countries.
The charity also funds many local charities and some money will also go towards the Barretstown Gang Camp for seriously ill children, a camp for local children in the Monkstown Centre and the funding of local projects in Dún Laoghaire through Barnardos.
Sixth class teacher and the fund’s organiser, Ken King, said the fund showed that the future was bright for young people getting involved in charitable work.
“It is in fashion now for people to go to other places to help people,” he said. “It shows that even among the youth that the future is safe because they think of other people.”
Sixth class student Rory Murphy said he gained invaluable business experience and also got do some good by raising money for charity.
“We do all different things,” he revealed. “I did a tennis marathon for five hours and we just asked for sponsorship. Others did a Christmas swim and swam the forty-foot.”
Anyone can lodge a donation directly to the ‘Children Helping Children Fund’, Permanent TSB, Stillorgan. Account Number: 84304545 Sort Code: 990629.
if only they sold THAT at department stores.....
