The Global Goals Bake Sale
Blogged by: Emma and Sarai
YOUTH FOR EQUALITY
Youth For Equality is giving our best efforts to raise awareness about gender equality but a part of our campaign is support. Support for women and men who are victims to inequalities because no one deserves to be alone in this fight for equality. Youth For Equality has decided to raise awareness as well as money for My Sister’s Place, a women’s shelter in Barrie for women who are victims of domestic abuse. All of our proceeds are going to this shelter because our main goal is to create equal opportunity as well as empower all women and girls because they tend to be victims of inequalities and gender-based violence. We have chosen to donate to a women’s shelter because we would like to contribute and give our support to the woman who were put in situations where they had no choice but to live in a shelter. 
Our first step towards raising money for My Sister’s Place was to hold a bake sale. Youth For Equality collaborated with two other global goals groups, The Tree Musketeers and H2WOAH, to raise money. We all wanted to make money so that we could donate the proceeds to different places. Youth For Equality made brownies and homemade cookies to sell and the other groups made cupcakes and cookies and we set up our table at lunch on Friday, November 25th. 
Our bake sale was a complete success! We sold everything we had with cheap prices. None of the baked goods were priced more than $2 so they were quite affordable. We were able to advocate for our campaigns to staff and students and explain why we were raising money and fighting for our goals. It was a positive experience and we were able to raise $171 meaning that each group got about $57 each.
Potential plans for the future: to raise more money for My Sister’s Place by making and selling t-shirts and/or jewelry.
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