Fund Raising For the Irish Society For Autism

On Friday 13^th October the transition years met at the Unity Building 16-17 Lower O’Connell Street. We reached there at 9:00 am and went up to collect a box to sell the contents. There were three choices given to us, the bears that had to be sold for 3 euro, the wrist band for 2 euro each with “THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR AUTISM” written on it and the third box contained flowers that had to be sold for 2 euro each as well. We were then given positions all over the city centre if we didn’t have any in mind already. The positions were soon forgotten, however, as each student tried his best to sell the most stuff and get the most money so they kept travelling to any place where they thought they would get good business. The flowers sold well especially since it was “Rose Week”. The other two also sold well as there were some really generous people who paid us 10 euro and bought just one bear, worth 3 euro, while, on the other hand, there were some drunk people who kept expecting us to give them free stuff.

At the end of the day we were all satisfied that we helped in giving a better life to the autistic people so no one was really tired walking around the city centre. Another satisfaction was that this year the transition year students raised the most money ever for the IRISH SOCIETY FOR AUTISM as this year’s collection was 3758. (Climaco Pinto)