PYP Children’s Day Covid-19 Outreach

INTRODUCTION

In light of the recent happenings of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Powerful Young Project could not hold a children’s day party as is customarily done every year. In an effort to support our current students’ families and to put a smile on both children and parent/guardians’ faces in celebration of the children’s day, we decided to organize an outreach where we provided relief care materials for each of our current 120 students and 10 alumni totaling 130 kids.

The Powerful Young Project (PYP) Children’s Day outreach was held on the 30th of May, 2020 at The Anglican Church of Pentecost, 21 Rd, Festac Town, Lagos, Nigeria. The event started at 9:00am and ended at 2pm with a total of 91 students/beneficiaries in attendance.

The outreach was tagged “putting a smile on a child’s face”, this was brought about by the need to make an impact in our student’s lives by showing them we care about their welfare and wellbeing even in the current circumstances we have all found ourselves in.

About the event

The first part laid down plan was to arrange the packages on the floor putting a distance of 6 feet between each, so, we started by setting the packages on the floor before the parents came so all they had to do was come in, pick their packages and leave. We had our volunteers help out with this arrangement.

But then, It began to rain heavily 30 minutes to the commencement of the program and this distorted all our previous plans, making room for new plans and strategies. We had to move the packages and everyone in, away from the rain. We continued after a while when the rain did not subside, while still ensuring that everyone still maintained the social distancing rule in the hall we used.

We made arrangement for bin bags where the kids could put their packages and they left with their parents as soon as the rain was subsiding, also, while it was raining, we had a campaign video session with the kids where they took pictures with already prepared placards with regulations concerning Covid-19 according to the World Health Organization(WHO). The rain subsided almost 2 hours later and the parents started trooping in again with the kids to receive their packages.

The program came to an end at 2:00pm after we had attended to 91 students and it seemed the others were not forthcoming.

Relief Care pack

Courtesy of our sponsors, we were able to distribute relief care packs comprising of the list below  to all PYP students and alumni that came.

• A carton of indomie noodles
• A bag of 1kg rice
• A bottle Dettol antiseptic
• A piece of Delta soap
• Oral B toothpaste
• Tissue paper
• A notebook with a pen
• Face mask

Expense report

At the start of the Children’s Day Covid-19 Relief Outreach, we had set a fundraising goal for N500,000. We set up a GoFundMe campaign and also started a local community campaign as we have done in previous years. From GoFundMe we raised 625 dollars and 479300 Naira locally in our community surpassing our goal. Even after the deadline of the fundraiser, we still received a few more donations. After a deduction of 23 dollars by GoFundMe for transaction fees, we had raised a total of N702040 surpassing our goal and allowing us to add more items to the care pack. Below is a breakdown of the expenses for the Children’s Day outreach. The rest of the money not spent will be put into plans for the PYP Summer program.

Conclusion

With a grateful heart we say thank you to all those who have supported this project both financially and otherwise, we were only able to record a success because of your trust,belief and contribution towards this project, we pray God grants you an increase in all your endeavours.

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