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Introduction
Introduce our project
Our project is “Ukay-ukay”. We are doing this project not only to sell and earn money but to get involved in community activities. The main purpose of this project is helping Filipino children and involving them. We believe that this kind of activity will give hope to the children and give them happy memories of their childhood. We are selling clothes, bags, hats, shoes, and accessories at Valencia Sunday Market and in our school campus at Kalikasan (Bong-ao Valencia).
Goal
Through what is active in local (Ukay-ukay), we want to experience the Philippine more. Through the community programs made by our income from Ukay-ukay, we can learn art activities and be close with Filipino students, and experience many things at the same time. Final activities with “연필 원정대”
Body
Sunday market
Originally, this semester we wanted to concentrate in last community programs. We didn’t have plans to go selling. But we thought we don’t have enough money, selling period is short, and many parents already donated the clothes to us. So we decided to sell the clothes this semester.
We sold the clothes only 3 times this term. Before starting the selling, we arranged the clothes and divided the clothes that needed to be sold. On the first week we brought 1 box. The next week we brought another box. On the final week, we sold all the clothes. This was our last semester’s feedback. This system is very good. Last semester when we went to sell the clothes at the Sunday Market and we brought all of the clothes. That time, people’s reaction was good. But as time went by, people lost interest because they already know our clothes. So we wanted to apply the same system. The result is successful. They always look for our clothes because every week we update the clothes.
Last semester many people asked us about our selling. They didn’t know that selling is one part of our project so we thought we have to announce our project goal. When they didn’t know about our project they thought we are jest vendors so they always wanted to ask for discount. We made a notice board and held it when we were selling the clothes. After we did that, many people knew about our project and our final goal.
First week we sold almost all of the clothes. We caught their eyes because we couldn’t continue our project during vacation. We also earned a large income. Second and fourth week results are also good. We couldn’t go sell on the third week because of homestay. We are already familiar with selling. We also have a regular patron and we are close with other sellers. I think selling is half part of our project so it is very important. Last semester we were not satisfied about selling but now we are satisfied.
Sometimes we don’t have transportation. So we walk to the Sunday market or call a tricycle driver but that is a little hard to us. We have to find other ways. When we go selling every week many people helped us. A few people go with us to the market or donate their clothes. After a few days we will sell the clothes and stuffs at the art fiesta booth.
This term’s itemized statement
Date
Money August, 31 September, 7 September, 21
Income 3370 2323 4344
Expenses 133 103 103
Amount 3237 5457 9698
Share a Pencil, Share HOPE
- How can we co-operate community project with Mario ssam's project?
Mario Ssam suggested that we do the project together, so we decided to collaborate with Mario ssam. He is interested with our “Hope” project. He suggested a lot of things for our project until now. Last semester, he made a plan for his project "연필 원정대" (Share a Pencil) in Korea. “연필원정대”’s goal and activities are pretty similar with our project. We thought it would be nice and helpful for our project if we do the project together with “연필원정대” because we thought we would be able to have more substantial and good experiences and ideas. And we thought, if we co-operate with “연필원정대”, we can help them in the ways like offering information and places.
- Our role
Our task before "연필원정대" arrives here in the Philippines is to decide places for us to do our community project (school and homestay place). Deciding is a very important aspect in our project. (As those things are main things of our work.) We need to research and decide the places where they stay, our transportation, important things needed for the project and the places where we can purchase. We also need to create a design and look for a place to paint our mural. Our main role is to research and prepare the thing we will be doing here in the Philippines.
When “연필원정대” will arrive, we will give them an orientation about “Ukay-ukay” here in the Philippines and about our “HOPE” project. We will go to the Sunday market together to let them experience our project and what Sunday market is. After doing those activities, we are planning to do community project that we will be preparing together.
- Activities & Difficult things
Activities: community project [teach students about body percussion, storytelling and donating books to children, performance, make notebooks and dream catcher, mural painting and home stay. Originally, we planned to teach (donation of talent) body percussion, do storytelling and mural painting for our final activities but when we decided to collaborate with “연필원정대”, we will combine our activities and their suggestion of doing a performance, making notebooks and dream catchers, and home stay. I think these will be great activities for our community project. While we have been doing our project, we have been thinking about the final activities of “HOPE” project. And we get to do project together with Mario ssam. As much as we prepare with other people and the meaning of the project became bigger, we had to discuss and share more. In order to discuss and share with the others, we had to communicate with them first. But the method we could do is only using internet. But the school WIFI is really bad so we could not communicate with Mario ssam properly. It would be better and nice if we communicate face to face.
Others
-Advertisement
Last semester we also did advertising. We made our project information paper and put the paper at some store. But it’s ineffective. While thinking about how people can participate and help our project easily we decided to make other advertising. In Korea, Jungsung ssam (Mario) is doing a campaign now. That campaign is “100원만”. Its meaning is “please give me 100Won (Korea money, like 4pesos.). That time information committee made a newspaper. We are information committee’s members. So we decided to follow this campaign and advertise on Kalikasan newspaper. Our advertising title is “please give me 5 pesos”. We will use that money when we buy stuffs for community programs.
-Facebook page
Now we administer our Facebook page. Every week we upload our selling at the Facebook page and also when we do something we do uploading. Many people “like” our Facebook page which means many people are concerned about our project. We feel very delighted but on one hand feel burdened sometimes.
-Upcycling
I made some upcycling things. First, I made messenger bag using our Ukay-ukay clothes. Last semester I already made this one but that time I didn’t have many skills. So I learned about how to use sewing machine and some sewing skills during summer vacation. Second, I made pouch. Originally, I wanted to make clutch bag. If I make clutch bag, I need some fabric but I didn’t have that so I made a pouch instead. I need some fabric so my mother will send me. I think after 3week I can make clutch bag. Third, we made shoes. However, we couldn’t finish them. We just made a copy. I learned from Recycle Diary (Coco ssam and Mario ssam’s vintage store). We will sell the upcycling things next month at school.
Conclusion
Next term plans
This term we didn’t do selling many times and did something because we don’t have a lot of time this term. We have to plan for selling at the art fiesta. Now we remain only few times selling and last community program. We have another selling plan. I made some kind of bag using Ukay-ukay clothes little by little now but after buying sewing machine I will start making the bags. We will select some dead stock or buy other Ukay-ukay clothes and make some kind of bags and shoes using “Upcycling”. However, we are concerned about something. If we make like that it can’t be sold like Ukay-ukay price. However if price is higher I think many people will be indifferent to our stuffs. So we have to think about a way. But now we think various experience like this plan is good for us. We always have to challenge and change. After finishing the last community program we will concentrate on graduation paper.
Plan for graduation speech
We thought about our graduation paper. We think we have to write graduation paper individually. But graduation speech will be together. We did same project like selling and homestay (with Mario ssam) but our learnings and feelings are different, including our motivations. So we will present a few parts of our project together and some parts individually. We will also make a video and show it during our presentation. 더 보기