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The nearest World Health Organization office is in Washington, DC.

:( I wish I'd realized this when we picked the charity to donate to for NPO. I really wanted to do the live presentation thing, but that's no longer possible.

Still, I had a lot of fun doing this project and I learned lots. I did a lot of the accounting, so now I'm better at that. I also practiced writing agendas and meeting minutes. I really liked the whole experience of selling, too. I prepped all the spare change, counted the money, and things like that. My mom knew more than I did--she reminded me to bring spare change in case people have big bills, and that was so smart. I didn't think of that at all, but we actually did get a $20 bill in about the first 20 minutes.

I understand the whole supply and demand process better now. We sold out of sugar cookies and almost out of regular cookies in the first day, so the first thing my mom and I did after school was buy more sugar cookies. The demand was higher than our supply, so we raised the supply. We had only 1 cookie left at the end of Day 2, so I asked my group members to buy more. Unfortunately, there was a miscommunication and we ended up with waaaay too many sugar cookies, which would last us the rest of the week. People started getting tired of baked goods in the 2nd week, so we made less money. OH ALSO, we found (sadly, on the last day) that if you walk around with a tray and approach cafeteria tables, people will buy your stuff. I think a lot of people didn't even bother to go to our table, but if you go up to them and ask, they'll buy. We sold pretty much the rest of our cookies this way, for 50¢ each (because of liquidation). Also, Mr. Olson's tip about presentation really helped. We made like a brownie tower for the 3rd day and they literally all sold out! The prettier things look (plus the tins made the food look homemade :P) the more people want to buy it, even though there's actually no effect on the taste or anything whatsoever. :)

I'm trying to keep accounting really neat right now, because getting the receipts was hard enough, now I don't want to mess any of it up. Total, we made about $134. That's a far cry from $1000, but I'm so glad we made progress and I worked so hard on this project, so I'm satisfied. (Although I would keep going if my group agreed... but they don't. :( ) Anyways, I'm proud to donate any money that we made to our charity because, as Sir Winston Churchill once said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." Except in our case, we won't offer blood and tears, because that's unhygienic and goes against our code of ethics. :P Also we'll take care not to let any of that drip into our food, because it's a. not FoodSafe and b. kind of yucky.

I had sooooo much fun doing this project. I would continue it, because I'm really into this kind of thing, but my group members don't want to, so... :(. But it's okay. I've been more aware of things like these charities, because I've learned more about them as we've gone along this project. This also makes me want to contribute more, and I'm sure I'll find ways to do so in the future.