Interact
This week Interact celebrated Purple Cake Day.
We celebrated this by having a Te Ra Kahu Kaika / home clothes day, and running a “cake walk” game which saw students and staff participating in a game similar to Musical Chairs - but in this case Musical Cakes, to win the most beautifully decorated large purple cake.
On top of this, as a group we managed to sell over 200 cupcakes to fundraise money for the children in Haiti. We each took home ingredients and baked one or two batches of cupcakes, and then spent our Monday afternoon at school decorating them and packaging them up, ready to give out on Tuesday.
The money is used to provide food, shelter and education to children in Port-au-Prince, in order to stop the cycle of poverty. We are so grateful for all the support we got from our local supermarkets, Queen’s students and staff, as well as everyone else in the community who purchased our cupcakes for this cause. Overall we had a very successful day and we are extremely proud of what we, as a community, achieved for the children in Haiti.
Thanks go to the following supermarkets who provided us with vouchers to purchase the product needed to make and decorate the cupcakes - with the result that all income received was profit, increasing the amount we are able to send to the Children of Haiti Project.
Countdown Andersons Bay
Countdown South Dunedin
Countdown Mailer Street
Pak ‘n Save
Follow this link to see more about the work of the Purple Cake Day foundation, and the Kiwi links to Haiti that formed it.
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