Elementary Student Makes Fundraising Look Easy

WEST SACRAMENTO, CA (MPG) - In a perfect world money really would grow on trees and there would never be an issue with being able to afford everything that we want or need.

However, it is not a perfect world. Fundraising is practiced in everything from medical research to Little League. Lighthouse Charter Elementary School is no exception.

Lighthouse Charter school recently held a walk-a-thon fundraiser to raise needed funds to purchase leveled readers for each grade. Additionally, they were hoping to raise enough money to purchase supplies for their art, music and gardening programs… with any left over to go into an account for future needs of teaching supplies.

The school has held a walk-a-thon in the past and had fairly good success. This year, each student was given the goal to raise twenty dollars. Celicia Ramirez, who turns eleven in June, took the fundraiser to heart and raised $900.

“I went home and told my mom that we were having a fundraiser, and we called or texted everyone in the contact list on my mom’s phone. Then we posted it on Facebook and Instagram about the fundraiser and everyone started donating”. Celicia is quick to share the credit with her mom Sonia, but Sonia is just as quick to tell Celicia that those people donated because of Celicia, and who Celicia is as a person. Celicia agreed that you have to love family as she said they will do anything for her.

The school raised in total $5020. Celicia’s class raised $1115 of that, $900.00 of that came from Celicia.  Celicia explained that the school had set up their parking lot to be the track that they held the walk-a-thon. She said they were allowed to walk, jog or run and that she mostly walked and jogged, but would run once in a while. At the end of the event all of the students got shaved ice, and her class is planning on a root beer float party after the SPAC test. Celicia won a Jamba Juice card for being the top fundraiser.

For those people that are fundraising, Celicia’s advice is that there are a lot of websites out there and to try to spread the news out to a lot of websites and to talk to your family and friends. Celicia said she’d like to thank her Mom, Nana and Tata, her Tia Michelle and her Tia Rosa along with everyone else that donated.