Check out the 7 steps to a successful Famine:
- Register for Famine
- Choose your Famine
- Set fundraising goals
- Promote the Famine
- Choose your event ideas
- Do the Famine!
- Collect and bank funds
Register
You can register with your school or church group, work group, family or as an individual. Register online now or call 0800 FAMINE (326 463).
Choose your Famine
There are endless Famine ideas for you to choose from. The idea is to do without, or do something for up to 40 hours, so pick a Famine that suits you. The point is to identify with the lives of children you're helping. Check out Raise the Stakes!
Some familiar Famine ideas are listed below:
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No food Famine: 20, or up to 40 hours living on Just Juice and barley sugars. (Important: Check out the Guidelines for participants doing the food Famine.) |
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No technology Famine: Go without a computer, email, TV, stereo, playstation, Xbox, mobile phone – and this includes texting! |
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Theme Famine: Live like a child in a developing country and use only rice and water for sustenance; or have a weekend sleepover and stay in cardboard boxes or a tent. |
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Sports Famine: Organise a group to do a 40-hour Runathon. |
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No talking Famine: The hardest Famine of all for many! |
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No electricity Famine: Turn off everything except your refrigerator and experience life without electricity. |
Set goals
Setting a goal gives you something to aim for, helps you concentrate your time and effort and keeps you motivated. So:-
- In your sponsor book write down your sponsorship goal before you start collecting to keep you motivated.
- Get a team together (include your Famine Organiser) to discuss what your school's fundraising goal could be this year.
- Refer to the Famine Hope Catalogue to set a goal based on an item that represents a specific community need in one of the Famine funded World Vision's projects.
- Raise the stakes by challenging your peers to set an equally challenging goal.
Use the template below and then challenge your peers!
| I am going to spend up to 40 hours__________ to raise enough money for_________ which means________________. What are you going to do? |
Promote
Get out there and tell the world:
- Activate and personalise your online famine profile.
- Ask people to sponsor you or write your own email (send it from your personal email account) explaining why you are doing the Famine and inviting friends and family to sponsor you by including the link to your online Famine profile.
- Always keep your Sponsor book handy – you never know who you will run into!
Event Ideas
Events can attract local and national media attention and boost your fundraising potential. The opportunities are endless, so click here to download some ideas to get you started.
Do the Famine - the official Famine weekend is May 22 - 24 but you can do it some other time before or after that weekend. Just remember to let your sponsors know.
Collecting and banking funds
Once you have completed your Famine let your sponsors know and collect their money. Remind them that they can pay online by credit card in your online Famine profile.- If you have online sponsors, confirm that you have completed the Famine in step four of the What To Do? section in your online Famine profile. Don't forget to contact your online sponsors to make sure they have completed their online payments.
- If you registered through your school or group, make sure you return all funds raised and your Sponsor Book to your Famine Organiser before 3 July so that you are eligible for a Famine Star Award and your school is eligible for either junior or senior scholarship.
If you registered as an individual, bank your money using the deposit slips in the middle of your Sponsor Book and return your used Sponsor Book to World Vision.