Haiti Cardboard Box Challenge

Nicola Gledhill of Wellington will wear nothing but a cardboard box as a challenge in her fundraising appeal for victims of the Haiti earthquake disaster.

Miss Gledhill set herself the challenge if her fundraising reached $1,000, now she has surpassed that she will be donning a cardboard box for an entire day. Her day in cardboard box fashion will start with a five minute walk down to the train station in the morning. She’ll then take the 30 minute commute to the city, then a 20 minutes walk up to the office where she works at local design agency DNA.

How well this goes down with her colleagues and clients is yet to be seen, but Miss Gledhill knows that the day she does this she will have client meetings and is looking forward, perhaps with some apprehension, as to how clients will react to her cardboard box fashion.

All you need to do to help Miss Gledhill with her challenge is to donate whatever you can afford through her FundraiseOnline Fundraising page to help the people in Haiti who need it so desperately.

All donations will be going direct to Save the Children, who has been working in Haiti since 1985 and are on the ground right now providing shelter, clean water, food and medical assistance to children and their families.

Miss Gledhill says she will be taking photos and videos to post on Twitter and FaceBook from her day of cardboard box fashion for Haiti. And if she raises $10,000, she pledges that she’ll get the total donation amount tattooed somewhere on her body.

"Nicola's fundraising effort is fantastically inspiring. The money she raises will be sent directly to Haiti for immediate emergency supplies as well as the long term recovery effort. We are committed to addressing the immediate needs of children and families and making sure they have a brighter future ahead." Said Save the Children's Chief Executive Liz Gibbs.

$1,000 provide so much for the victims of the Haiti earthquake; 280 buckets to help families carry clean water, 80 tarpaulins to provide basic shelter to protect families, 226 mosquito kits to protect children from malaria.

Miss Gledhill’s appeal comes at a time when FundraiseOnline launches their Emergency Response Programme. The programme will allow FundraiseOnline’s emergency response charity partners, such as Save the Children and other charities registered with FundraiseOnline to set up appeal pages within hours of an emergency like the Haiti earthquake, these charity partners will be able to access a significantly reduced cost of raising funds specifically for that appeal.

Nigel Sanderson of FundraiseOnline says “This is about recognising the human aspect of tragedies like this and FundraiseOnline offering its support as a commercial entity to help ensure funds can be raised in the most cost and time effective way possible.”

To help the people of Haiti please visit Nicola’s Fundraising page http://www.fundraiseonline.co.nz/nicola_for_haiti/; or Save the Children www.savethechildren.org.nz.