Stop the Traffik!! (220 days to go)
Every day, people do things that astound me, and the last couple of days has been no exception! Five days ago the voting was going well with over 4,000 votes cast for the $10,000 challenge, which was a massive effort!
When voting closed, at 4pm today (28/02/09), the results absolutely BLEW ME AWAY! We had received a massive 51,247 Votes! I never dreamt that my cause would be able to reach this many people.
And the Winner is…
Congratulations to Stop the Traffik (www.stopthetraffik.org) with their fantastic effort, receiving 92% of all the votes cast!
So they official results are as follows:
1st Place and the recipient of all funds raised by me for the Rotorua Marathon is Stop the Traffik with 47,372 Votes!!
2nd Place was Save the Children with a great effort and 2647 Votes!
3rd Place was the Child Cancer Foundation with 1112 Votes! This charity also blew me away, with the massive support from the public and I hope to be doing something with them next.
4th Place was the Heart Foundation which finished with 146 Votes!
My sincere thanks to EVERYONE that voted and to all the charities that were involved. I know a lot of hard work went into this and I do believe that ALL the charities managed to raise their profile through this exercise.
As charity is an ongoing process, I do hope to work with all these charities over the coming months and appreciate all the correspondence and support I have received so far.
The difficult has now passed - we have a winner. Now all we have to do is raise the $10,000! So keep an eye out for some innovative fundraising activities courtesy of your Kiwi Millionaire!
To donate to STOP THE TRAFFIK please visit http://www.justgiving.com/ryankilfoil
Tags: challenge, charity, child cancer, final, giving, heart foundation, results, rotorua marathon, running, save the children, stop the traffik
February 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Wow this is a fantastic result, I was surprised when I saw this as I thought that the Save the Children would have won! Great to see that Stop the Traffick won, congratulations Ryan, I’m inspired by all that you have done so far. You’re a real inspiration to us all.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:19 am
Thanks for your support Shilo, it is a great result and this has inspired me to do more of this work to help those people that really deserve it. Have a great day!
March 1st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
WoW! what a truly amazing result Ryan. Well done!!
March 7th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Thanks for your little comment. I really admire what you’re doing. Godspeed with all the things you do!!
Jesse