Service
In my junior year, became president of Charity Art Club, and for the first event, we collaborated with Gin Club, together, we made 50+ hand drawn tote bags and sold all of them. Originally, we were going to donate the money to an elderly caring center 弘道老人基金會 located in Kaohsiung. However, after hearing what happened in Lebanon, we decided to donate all the profit to Lebanon as a relief fund. During our drawing sessions and club members meeting, we made a presentation that discusses more details about Lebanon and why the explosion happened.
Due to government corruption, we decided to donate the money to Lebanon Red Cross, despite the money was not much, but the we did raise awareness about the issue by allowing people to learn more information about Lebanon. I believe it was meaningful because majority of people, including me, didn’t know anything about Lebanon until the explosion, and after learning about the issue, majority of people just shared this on their social media, but barely know anything about Lebanon as a country.
Since this was my first event, I struggled a lot, I found it difficult to manage the schedule, and distribute jobs to executives, one thing I learned this time is that even if you have a plan and the schedule for the event, you need to make it even more detailed! It has to include basically everything, I always thought leadership was easy, until I found out that there were so many problems I had to deal with, for example:
- it was really hard to form a plan beforehand
- hard to make some executives more productive
- hard to deal with divergence in opinions
- hard to distribute jobs
I was really happy because received over 30 designs and over 20 people signed up to draw the designs onto the tote bags, it showed how people were really enthusiastic about the event, which made me feel really accomplished. I learned so much in one event, so I’m looking forward to what I can learn from the following events.
Here are two of my favorite designs made by members (NOT BY ME)
Drawing sessions photos
