EB Fundraiser and Pumpkin Raffle

As you know, we have been working hard to raise money for EB, which affects a student in our classroom.   A child born with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) has a deficiency of one of several proteins that anchor the skin to the body. One such protein is C7—an important form of collagen. Without enough of these proteins, the skin tears and pulls away from body easily, causing serious wounds and recurrent blistering (www.childrenscancer.org/puck/research.html).   When we heard that there was already a runner in the Columbus Marathon raising money for this cause, we knew we wanted to get involved! 

Our class prepares for our fundraiser!

I am so proud of how hard our class worked to set up this bake sale and pumpkin raffle, start to finish!  We not only came up with the idea, but wrote letters to other classrooms, made announcements to the whole school, donated our baked goods, and even worked at the Bake Sale and Raffle Ticket stand.  The first day alone, our pumpkins drew in over 150 raffle tickets, and we sold as many baked goods!

HTE staff decorated pumpkins for our Pumpkin Raffle

I want to thank our generous families who donated baked goods, our wonderful volunteers who worked at the booths, and our HTE staff who decorated pumpkins for our raffle (and they looked amazing!).  I also want to thank my caring and supportive group of students this year, to whom I credit the success of our fundraiser.

Students from Room 105 worked the Raffle and Bake Sale tables both days!

I am proud to announce that we raised $880.00 for EB.  The proceeds (through PUCK) go to support EB research at being done at the University of Minnesota. The research includes understanding animal models to find what the stem cell population is that makes skin and to figure out how to isolate it from human marrow. Also to do the clinical trials and to rebuild the immune system in children with EB and make blood and skin forming stem cells that are normal from EB patients.  Find out more at www.childrenscancer.org/puck/research.html.

Again, thank you all for your generous support!