Marich club

The golf tournament was one of fundraisers by

 the marich club to raise money for the 

upcoming bridge build in 2012 trip. The Activity was sponsored by multiple donors such as Airtel, Yara, Jave House and more. The most amazing price we received was a car from GM which we received a great deal for as the person who gets a hole in one would win some money, the car would go to the Bridging the Gap foundation and the Insurance money would go to our club. Each business paid to sponsor a golf hole which could cost anywhere from 35,000 to 70,000 shillings the gold course was donated to our club by the owner of the Windsor golf club Musoke.  Harmon Parker the CNN hero was in attendance of our event because he works with us in building the bridge. There was a raffle which was also part of this event, we got a bunch of cool prices from jewelry places and once again Airtel. Through this activity we hoped to raise as much money as possible through the tournament and the raffle ticket sales.

This activity was a culmination of a lot of word done through the year, the event was very stressful to organize as the sponsors wanted to have different signs and posters up at different holes, which we had to put up. We ran into a lot of trouble finding places to put the signs and logos on as the course is full of plants and trees, We also had trouble with the golf cart when transporting equipment from place to place as it kept breaking down. Also we had trouble organizing ourselves as half of us had to return back to the international day at school and some of us had a semi-final to play.

This activity in the long run would have a wonderful benefit to the people of the west pokot region, the money we raised at the golf tournament and the raffle will go to implementing small scale community based projects which will in the future help the community greatly. The projects we will implement will also be sustainable projects.

If I could change one thing about the project, I would organize it better and advertise it better so we would have had a lot more people who would attend. If I had time I would organize some music entertainment for the prize giving ceremony. The next time I have the chance to do something like this again I will be very excited and I would love to do this in cooperation with another club or a bigger foundation.