STAND Juneau's Fast

ANYwhoo. STAND Juneau held a rather okay event, a 'lets-get-back-into-the-swing-of-things' event, if I do say so myself. STANDFast is a fund-raising/educating campaign with STAND, a student anti-genocide coalition and the Genocide Intervention Network that raise money for GI-Net's Civilian Protection Program that directly help the people on the ground in the genocide areas.

So we had this event last weekend (1/17-18) at Rainbow Foods downtown. It was pretty cool. We got a table and chairs (donated by my folks), some flyers/packets/one-pagers on the campaign and on Darfur and Eastern Burma (also courtesy of mom and her printer) and Emily brought in some other one-pager documents. It was awesome. We didn't get a lot of donations on Saturday, but this guy, Eric Bailey (spelling?), gave us a good idea to think about, something like somehow planting indigenous species of trees in ares of Darfur that could grow them. That way you'd cut down the need for firewood once the trees start giving a good yield, get hopes up, have something for the people to do, etc. It's got it's flaws and weakpoints, but it was a pretty cool idea.

So for Saturday it was me, Teslin and Emily, and then Leon. Emily ended up being super cool and took home our supplies because I couldn't run back downtown. Then on Sunday she brought it all in and was there from about noon til 1:00pm, then Leon came in and relieved her. Sunday seemed to be pretty active, we got $64 dollars in cash and checks. :) Then Emily donated $120 that she actually had from last year, which we happily accepted. It was cool. No, it was better than cool. It was FANTASTIC.

I'm excited. We're planning another HUGE event, with various little ones in the interim between here and then. STAND Juneau is... amazing. :D

Thank you to Emily, Leon, Teslin, and to Rainbow Foods for hosting us. And, to everyone that donated!