Last week I got an e-mail from Weleda saying that the jury now is working on deciding who to give the scholarship to. I'm wondering how they will decide. I know that the number of likes on facebook was one important criteria, but hoping it is not going to be everything they go on. I managed to get over 300 likes for my project in Excellent, but some had over 1000 likes. Last year they gave the funds to an organisation working with people living on a dump in Equador. Some people I talked to think that it is unlikely to go to a foreign country again. There were lots of project about health, environmental issues and troubled kids in Sweden that applied. I'm hoping they will see that my project is much more urgent and important, but as I stated before, people tend to not allow poverty problems to get to them and find them hard to understand. I guess it's a common effect by living in a country where no one is starving and lack the possibility of getting an education.
Now, the only thing I can do is keep my fingers crossed!
I still feel that Weleda seems to be a great company, taking their social responsibility to a high level. Only the fact that they contacted ME, a teenager in Kenya, is very impressive. I know there is a lot of company with social responsibility plans, but they all seems so hard to get to. They probably give their money to organisations that also uses them for administration. My project is not run by a big company, but by me, whit no extra costs that means that all the money goes to what they are intended for. I'm also very thorough when reporting back. I'm going to work hard on getting more companies to notice me and hope that opportunities like this comes up again.
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