Monday, February 1, 2010

The most amazing bake sale ever.

This will just be a brief post, to be followed by a much more substantial one later in the week (with pics!).

Yesterday was the NYC Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti. The main organizers were the VET's very own Lisa of Panda with Cookie and our good friend Dayna of the awesome blog Seitan Said Dance; I played a distant third fiddle and MANY others contributed very significant help, like the amazing Janice who designed our flier.

Well, to put it lightly the event was a raging success! A completely astounding number of wonderful people baked a ridiculously delightful array (and quantity) of baked goodies. People came out en masse to volunteer, buy, eat, purchase raffle tickets, donate, and generally support the cause.

Thanks to this outpouring of awesomeness, we were able to raise approximately $4600 in a single day, every penny of which will be sent directly to Doctors Without Borders to help fund their current work in Haiti.

To everyone who was involved in this and all of the other Vegan Bake Sales for Haiti that have been happening and continue to happen all over the world - collecting over TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR HAITI to date!! - thank you, thank you, thank you.

When vegans really come together to make some thing happen, is there anything we can't do?

3 comments:

Embee Breedlove said...

Correction: make that $25,000.

Embee Breedlove said...

Here's a Flickr set with many many pics of the event!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/evanmcgraw/sets/72157623204779529/

(Warning: I do not photograph well.)

mvegan said...

WOW! Awesome!!!! :0) Wish I could have been there , great work!!! :)