Founder's day sales

In the morning of the 24th of July, we set up a small stall in front of the school hall to try and sell our custom made and limited edition Raffles umbrellas to the parents and teachers who were present on RI Founder's Day. We started the day off we 3 tubes of 60 umbrellas.

We set up a table with posters describing our cause prominently displayed by the table. The set up the table right in front of the parents registration table, in an attempt to try and attract the parents' attention. However the first hour outside the hall was not very successful as we only managed to push about 5 umbrellas to teachers and parents.

With advice from Mrs Yap and Dinie, we decided to quickly move to the main atrium once the doors to the hall closed and set up our table by the main atrium, awaiting the reception after the prize giving where proud parents of prize winners and teachers would mingle while having lunch.

By about 10 am, the main atrium was full of people and we began pitching our merchandise. At first I remained at the table to keep track of umbrellas sold, the money and any other parents whose eyes happen to catch the posters. In the end however, I ended up going up to parents and teachers to sell as well, after being persuaded by Giang and Dinie.

Selling of the Raffles Umbrella was definitely much much easier than selling the Mercy Relief Pandas during ORA. When approached almost all parents would friendlily listen to what I had to say and most would buy the umbrella. Some were even willing to buy it before hearing what I had to say. Some also let us keep the change, which contributed to our funds.

At the end, we ended up selling 133 umbrellas, which I found to be an amazing number for only 1 morning of sales. It was definitely a morning well spent and it was especially rewarding when we had an awesome lunch courtesy of the founders day reception buffet.

Despite our success, we should continue working to sell the umbrellas to raise funds as these funds would be extremely useful for us to decide how exactly do we want to help the village. I will continue to try my best to sell my remaining 10 umbrellas as soon as possible :)