Project5000 to me is just a massive love feast organized to put smiles on the faces of indigent kids by feeding,providing medical checkups, fun,games and giving them gift packs as souvenirs to take home. I was thrust into been the sub-head for the gifts and packaging unit/department.
Basically the duties of the dept. will entail packing all the gifts items into a pack for each child to take home ,so packing for over 5000+ kids was definitely not going to be an easy task. In addition,we were also in Charge of Sorting Clothes ,shoes and any other things to give the children. In line with this there would be a Stand provided @Venue for parents and kids to come pick from at a stipulated time. Because of the nature of our various personal lives, with the yuletide festivities in the air and end of year and it’s various hiccups 😆myself and my team knew we had to put in a lot of sacrifice to meet up before the D-day of 26th. Through online meetings ,we were able to strategically organise and plan ourselves to meet-up and through superhuman efforts ,commitment and teamwork spirit that BDSF stands for accomplish the task of packaging the gifts items before the Event-day. Yippee hurray !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So duty one was done and dusted and we now had to wait on till the D-day 26th to prepare for the Clothes section giveaways . On the 26th of December , the packaged gift items for the kids were duly handed over to the Community mobilising unit head officer. We then swung into action in arranging the Clothing and personal items giveaway on tables for easy sorting. We had different sections of clothings for babies, toddlers, pre-teens,teenagers and adults. And at the stipulated period during the event, various people filed in to pick up useful clothings and accessories that they needed . I had so much fun with my team and other volunteers in making the 3rd edition of project5000 a resounding success even with the various obstacles ,we all pulled through and we WILL continue to do all we can for the cause.
Long live Black Diamonds Support Foundation (BDSF)