Make a dream come true
"You will find, as you look back on your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others." - Henry Drummond
I have a little over a month till the marathon, so I think it's time I start putting some effort into this raising money for charity thing. I'm not the kind of person that can easily ask for things...even if it isn't for me, and it's for people, err, kids that really need it. I guess I need to get over that. So here it goes: If you can spare just $5, I would be so happy, and I think you would be to. I know a lot of people look at my fundraiser page, and they think - "Man, it would be so cool if we could do something and donate a ton of money for this..." And I love the sentiment, but there is something you can do. If you can afford it, give $5 or $10 or $1, big or small, it doesn't matter, but it does make a huge difference.
I've had this fundraiser page up for a few months now, and I look at it, and I think, "Does that make sense? Does it explain the charity?" So I wanted to try and make it make more sense. I went to one of my favorite websites (youtube) and started "researching". Hahaha. I wanted to find out just what is GKTW? What do they do? What makes them special?
Here is what I have found out so far:
(I sort of aggregated all of this from a couple of different sources)
This is Hailey Marie's video:
Hailey is doing very well now, no cancer!
Here is a list of some of the things I have learned that your donation will help GKTW do for 1000's of kids this year. For about 80% of these kids, their last wish will be to meet Mickey Mouse.
- everything at GKTW is designed specifically for kids.
- tables are kid height.
- kids get the biggest room in the villa.
- the kids bathroom is the one with the jacuzzi tub.
- kids can have all the ice cream they want until 9:30pm
- kids can have pizza until 10:30
- kids can have a disney character or GKTW staff read bed time stories at night.
- kids can get tucked in at night by the mayor of GKTW (a big bunny named Mayor Clayton)
- kids can watch movies for free all week long at a huge movie theater.
- kids get free access to ALL of the theme parks in Orlando...Sea World, Universal, Disney, etc.
- kids get fast access to all of the rides at the parks, little to no wait for anything.
- kids get behind the scenes access to the characters.
- all of the rules at GKTW are positive, i.e the pool rules explain what you CAN do not what you can't do.
- when the kids return to their rooms at night, there is a present waiting for them every night.
- kids have access to a big fishing pond.
- kids have rides at GKTW just for them.
