Service: Habitat for Humanity - Fundraising

            The academic year has ended, and we will continue our fundraising for the Habitat for Humanity project once we return to school in August. We will not be idle over the summer holidays though. We have made plans to sell friendship bracelets, or plain hand crafted embroidery floss bracelets if you like, once we return to school. Therefore, this summer we will be working on making those bracelets to sell.

            Today is the first day that we will set out to begin making the bracelets. We met up at Chika’s house today and learned to make different simple bracelet patters based on instructions we got online and from books. Those of us who have previously had some experience making friendship bracelets, including myself, especially helped to teach the others who have not had experience yet with creating friendship bracelets. It was also a time for use to gauge just how much string we needed to make each bracelet, including how much string we had to leave at the ends of the bracelet. Using this information, we distributed the embroidery floss and string that we have so far between us, so that we can continue to create bracelets in our own time at home.

            As we plan on making about 100 bracelets in total, we will be meeting up again with more string to distribute. We also decided that we will be making a number of different patterns, some more simple, while others more complex, and the prices of the bracelets when we sell them will differ based on the complexity of the bracelet. For example, simplest bracelets will be the ones made out of the spiral (or chines ladder) and simple braid patterns, which consists of strings of just three different colors (or less).