MEETING NOTES: Initial Kick-Off Meeting

Children and parents met for the initial planning meeting. After watching an overview of the purposes and work of Heifer International, we discussed how best to approach staging a school-wide fund-raiser this year. We made the following decisions:

• to focus initial efforts on getting the word out about the group and fundraiser around the school (postings, blog, word-of-mouth)
  
• to stage the fund-raiser, a Read to Feed read-a-thon, early in 2008
  
• to encourage participating children and families to read about cultures from other parts of the world