May 2019 - The English Times May Newspaper | Page 11

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ourselves, but on everyone who is that were we having and to teachers’
contributing in any form. Teachers, availability. (...) We now value small
coordinators, staff, guests, sponsors, and initiatives that help needy institutions or
students are all important to make this people more, because we know how hard it
event happen. Without the engagement is to lead them.”
of these people, this project would not
“My experience with Funday was actually
have succeeded, and we would not have pretty good. (...) There were downfalls, like
been able to collect the number of when we couldn’t meet our donation goals,
donations we wanted to (...).” or when we’d have to stand there all break
“Funday was a learning experience. We
learned a lot about leadership – how to
adapt our planning (goals, challenges,
to get a small number of donations, but I
think it was very successful.”
and we do not depend exclusively on