January 23, 2010

Hi everyone,

I’m Miss England’s Aunt Di.  I live close to Chicago Illinois close to where Miss England is from.  Tidy Teddy came on an adventure with me to volunteer at a BIG Telethon to help raise money for the people that live in Haiti where that big earth quake happened.  There are many many people that need food, water and homes because the earth quake destroyed them.

The event was called ‘Chicago Helps Haiti’ and all of the TV and Radio stations came by to let people know they could call a phone number and donate money to help the people of Haiti.  The place where I work volunteered all the phones and 1500 people to answer them.  I was one of them.

I volunteered along with my friends Priya, Terri and Tidy Teddy to answer phones and take donations.  We started at 5 o’clock in the morning and stayed until 11 o’clock at night.   I was very tired but it was a lot of fun being with my friends and helping collect money for the people of Haiti.

At the end we raised 2 million 9 hundred thousand dollars that will go to food, water, clothes and homes for people.  I talked to a lot of very nice people on the phone.  My biggest donation was $1000 dollars!!!!  I also talked to a mom who’s little boy and girl asked her to call and donate their allowance of 10 dollars they had saved up.  They wanted to help the kids they said.

It was a very exciting day and I hope Tidy Teddy had fun.  Everyone asked about him as he was sitting next to me on my desk.  I told them he was helping me and that I was going to send pictures to your school so you can see him helping out!

Love,

Aunt Di

Tidy Teddy posed with the big sign that told everyone what were were doing.

Tidy Teddy sitting on my desk next to my phone and PC where I would type in peoples donations.

Tidy Teddy and my two friends Priya (on the left) and Terri (on the right).  We were sitting in one of the rooms where all the phones were.  We had 4 rooms of people!  You can see more people and the Total Board in the background.  This picture was taken at about 5:15 in the morning.

Tidy Teddy and Aunt Di

This is a picture of Tidy Teddy, Aunt Di, Terri and Priya back at our desks where we work.  Tidy Teddy let me know I should clean up my desk before I leave everyday to make sure everything looks neat.

These are some of the other volunteers that helped out at the telethon.