Menu for Hope III: Cookies and Coffee for a Cause
Christmas season is a frenetic whirlwind of activity, capable of running even the most cheerful spirit into the ground. At times like these, we need to take a step back and regain perspective.
Menu for Hope is an annual raffle by food bloggers to raise money for people in need. If you're reading this, you are literate, with access to a computer and internet connection. Budgets may get tight, but we're not faced with starvation because we can't afford to buy food for ourselves and our families. People who receive assistance from the United Nations World Food Programme are.
By buying raffle tickets, you are helping put food in the mouths of brothers and sisters around the globe and earning the chance to win fabulous loot. Tickets are a mere $10 each. For my part, maʻona will be contributing a prize into the raffle pool...
Raffle item #UW14: Rich and addictive Big Island Candies chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies and a pound of 100% Kona coffee (whole bean). Coffee from the Kona region is known as some of the very best in the world, smooth as a baby's bottom (but much better tasting). BIC dipped cookies... well, you'll have to try them for yourself. Put the two together and you have a Hawaiian dessert package guaranteed to create lifelong cravings and a compulsion to come visit. (If you actually do come visit, drop me an email and we'll meet for more coffee--my treat.)
Authentic Kona coffee runs about $25-$30/pound, and the gift box of cookies is easily another $10. For the cost of a single raffle ticket, you have the chance to win it all, and help the fight against poverty and hunger. Not only that, but I'll ship them right to your doorstep, at no cost to you.
As I said, tickets at a mere $10--look me in the eye and tell me you didn't spend more than that on lunch last week. Here's how easy it is to get a chance at that amazing combo above:
- Go to the donation page right now. There's no reason to put this off.
- Make a donation, each $10 will give you one raffle ticket toward a prize of your choice. Please specify which prize or prizes you'd like in the 'Personal Message' section in the donation form when confirming your donation. The code for Cookies and Coffee is UW14. Do tell us how many tickets per prize, and please use the prize code -for example, a donation of $50 can be 3 tickets for UW14 and 2 for UW01. Or 5 chances at fabluous UW14!
- If your company matches your charity donation, please remember to check the box and fill in the information so we can claim the corporate match.
- Please also check the box to allow us to see your email address so that we could contact you in case you win. Your email address will not be shared with anyone.
- Check back on Chez Pim on January 15 when we announce the result of the raffle.
The raffle closes on December 22nd, in only . What are you waiting for?! Go!
(This item is the one you really, really, really want, but you should also check out the other West Cost items listed at Becks and Posh and around the world.
thanks for taking part Alan, and for giving the world the opportunity for a taste of Hawaii.
Alan, man, authentic Kona coffee is hard to get - and those cookies sound tasty. Very cool prizes!
Sam, my pleasure. I'm humbled to include my modest prize among such an amazing pool, but I figure every little bits counts.
Brett- I hope you bid! Congrats on securing a space for your restaurant.