Celebrate For Change!

Yesterday was my 13th birthday, and I celebrated by having a "Celebrate for Change" birthday. This is where I asked all my friends to bring money instead of presents, I will soon donate that money to Free the Children. "Celebrate for Change" is a fundraising event with Free the Children, and the premise is that there are 50 million children born each year who's births aren't recorded. So official these children are "invisible". Often, these children are forgotten, and they end up in dangerous situations of child labour. For more information about "Celebrate for Change" and about Free the Children, go to the Free the Children website at http://freethechildren.com/.

I tried to invite as many people as possible, so that I could raise as much money as possible. In the end, we raised $550, $50 over my goal!!! It was a great party and everyone had a lot of fun.


Setting up for the party. I put maps up everywhere around the back yard, all the maps were of places where Free the Children worked.


We had lots of fun at the pool part of the party.


Rebecca with cape, guitar, and friends.


We didn't have any candles, but the sparkles worked out just fine.


The group photo at the end. In the end, 21 people came!

This was an amazing experience, and it was so cool to see everyone so into the fundraising part. We also made two big posters that has everyone's name on it that we will send to Free the Children with the money. Thank you so much everyone for coming, it was so fun!