Ukraine fundraiser
Young entrepreneur smashes her fundraising target
TEN YEAR-OLD Maia Bombrys is flexing her entrepreneurial skills with fundraising efforts for Ukrainian aid charity, Sunflower Scotland, and has already broken her initial target of raising a total of £1,000.
This is a charity close to her heart as her mother, Anastasia, is Belarusian/Ukrainian.
Maia started off with a stall at Tesco in Musselburgh where she sold t-shirts, jewellery and home made cakes, making £767.06 for the charity. Since then she has been able to replenish her stock with new items supplied by Hiroko Macfadyen, a Japanese jewellery maker who lives in The Honest Toun where she makes her own jewellery range by hand.
Some othere new stock came from the US where Maia’s paternal grandparents live. While visiting Florida they related the story of their granddaughter’s fund-raising efforts to a Vietnamese shop owner who gave them some jewellery from her store for the schoolgirl to sell for charity in Edinburgh.
Most recently Maia, along with her friend Katarina Steele, raised £549.20 at the Coffee Morning held at Starbucks Fountainbridge, smashing through her initial target.
When her stock is at an end Maia might make her own jewellery to sell, but meantime she has many T-shirts available for sale. Contact Sunflower Scotland through Facebook.