Christmas Card

The 2008 Romania Christmas Card Appeal has been a great success. We managed to raise almost £600 in the sale of the cards. A big thank you to all of you that helped us by selling them to your friends and family.

Oyster volunteers with the new Codlea Wheelchair

All of the money was sent to Romania and has now bought a brand new wheelchair for use at Codlea Children’s Home.

A big thank you once again to all of you that were involved!

Designed by children in Codlea, Romania

After the success of our Christmas card last year; raising around £400 for Romanian Orphans, we have decided to try and beat last years record and help Codlea Children’s home even more. We already have a few keen sellers enlisted to raise money for Codlea but we need more. If you want to be able to send unique Christmas cards that you can guarantee no one else will send (Disabled children from the home designed the card themselves) or if you want to help enrich the lives of these children in Romania then please do get in touch with us and we can send you as many cards as you’d like, to sell to your friends and family. The cards are not too expensive either meaning that you should be able to sell quite a few. Roger is heading up the Christmas card project this year so you can get involved by calling him on 01892 770771 or by emailing on roger@oysterworldwide.com. We would love your help and you really would be making a difference to those orphans lives. Read the rest of this entry »

Following on from last year’s success where by four returned volunteers sold nearly 1,000 Christmas cards (raising £400) we are hoping to expand the scheme this year. Susan Boyes revisited Romania over the summer and got the disabled children to design a card. If you would like to help sell these cards then please comment and we will be in touch!

It is really encouraging for us at Oyster that so many of our volunteers come back to the UK not only wanting to return to their destination as soon as possible but to raise money for their projects. Romania is by far our most popular destination to return to, partly because of it’s location but mainly because the volunteers really do fall in love with the country and work. This year Oyster has worked alongside four volunteers who went out over the summer to raise money for the family homes. We took a picture that the children did together and have designed and printed a Christmas card. The four volunteers will then sell these 1000 cards and all money raised will go to improve these family homes.

We also have a returned Romanian volunteer putting on a concert to raise money. Celia Newell who went with us in January is hoping to raise £1000 for a family home dedicated to disabled children. The concert is on Sunday 16th December 3.00pm at St Chads church in Shrewsbury.