A donation action and sale by auction on eBay created by Patty Vohla and her friends!
Patty Vohla has found Wake Up-Stop Child Abuse on myspace and just like many of our other friends, added our charity organization to her friends list.
She wanted to help straight away, made a donation but was very sad that she couldn't give more though she hasn't got much money herself.
She noticed that Wake Up-Stop Child Abuse has over 10'000 friends but only a few did really help which made her sad and also a bit angry.
So Patty started to think of how she could help even more and though she creates handmade bears and has friends, real friends, she first called them all together over her own forum.
Her idea was to start a donation action for Wake Up-Stop Child Abuse.
Patty thought that she and all her friends could sew bears and start a sale by auction on eBay.
All her friends on her forum were straight away totally inspired by the idea and said they would take part on the action and help her.
But Patty thought, how do i organize this?
She never did anything like this and she really didn't have a clue of how to organize it all.
So Patty just jumped into the cold water and went ahead!
She knew she would need some more people who can sew bears and would help her.
First, Patty started with the creation of a new website and a banner, which you can see at the top of this blog.
She decided to call her action:
"Bears for Wake Up and against Child Abuse!"!
Patty and her friends from her forum then called or wrote to all the bear makers they knew and asked them if they would take part and also sent them the banner which they all embedded onto their websites.
It was all done as a mouth propaganda but also got to the bear makers through e-mails.
Someone knew this person, someone else did post it over his/her forum and it went around the bear makers like a hot fire.
In the end there were a staggering "41" bear makers who would take part in Patty's action for Wake Up-Stop Child Abuse!
Now it was time for Patty to prepare the sale by auction on eBay and that was a lot of work though she had to create each page seperately, a own eBay account and also a "my" page.
And on the 19th of July 2009 the sale by auction on eBay finally started.
Now hold yourself because Patty and her wonderful friends collected a stunning
EUR 1'260.00 / $1'758.00 / £1'060.00!!!
You can have a look back at the action on one of Patty's websites here but please note that though Patty is from Germany, it is written in german:
And here is what Patty said after her fantastic and outstanding action for our charity organization:
Up until now i have never helped a charity organization and this sale by auction on eBay was my first ever action.
I just took a jump into the cold water and my only goal was that this action has to be a succsess!
The children are our future and i think we have set a real mark and we have succeeded and achieved our goal!
My wish is that lots more people would take action into their own hands because just talking doesn't change the world to the better!
It doesn't need lots of money because everyone has got two hands and a head which can be used to do some thinking.
Ideas don't cost anything but are very precious just like our action shows and i'm very proud of what we have achieved!
And here is what Ralph Jones, founder and president of Wake Up-Stop Child Abuse,
said to Patty's wonderful action:
I'm lost for words, Patty Vohla has done something of which others only talk about and then for ever disappear!
I always say, "action talks and bullshit walks", as you can read in one of my blogs!
Patty even had to endure some sad and foul attacks of one german person because she did all this for a charity organization which isn't based in Germany but in Switzerland but never the less, she went ahead with it.
Patty, my dear and wonderful friend, YOU ARE THE BEST and YOU ARE A TRUE HERO!!!
I want to thank you Patty and all your "real" friends from the bottom of my heart and also in the name of all the children and teenagers who have to grow up in this sad and wasted world!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
And here are the names of Patty's "real" friends who have helped her:
Yvonne Papajewski, Irmgard Ketsch, Jutta Berka, Sonja Horvath,
Silvia Schulze, Annette Welsch, Sibylle Frisch, Michaela Maronde,
Sabine Maucher, Silvia Maier, Tatjana Ossanna, Birgit Janz-Pawel,
Iris Kahlich, Yvonne Geiger, Petra Spiess, Jutta Herchenhan,
Iris Brunsmeier, Andrea Cursiefen, Simone Schröder, Katy Lepoittevin,
Iris Grabowski, Marion Eichhorn, Cornelia Wilde, Tanja Hotopp,
Marlene Rieken, Martina Höncke, Petra Ritter, Helga Wolters,
Kornelia Müller, Elke Wolf, Angelika Reiche, Nicole Stögbauer,
Marion Stark, Birgit Wenzel-Zeuch, Yvonne Schulze, Hella Gehrung
and Karola Montag.
The Children And Teenagers Are Our Future!!!