We've spent the last week pondering about Blendz. Pondering on its social responsibility; pondering on its purpose. We came to the conclusion that for the past months we have been blending and making smoothies "just 'cus" and not because we were excited to donate to our fund. "But why is this" you may ask yourself, "you know where the money is going to so why aren't you motivated?" Well yes, we do know where the money is going but we are not seeing any change in the community, we can't put faces to the people we are helping. Also, the money isn't going anywhere where it blends our community, an important aspect of Blendz. So we've pondered and we've come back to one of the ideas we always seem to end up at: have an event dedicated to the workers, where they have time to enjoy with their family and with the Roosevelt community. that, but after two hours of workshops, we would have sports such as a soccer match or a volleyball game in which everyone would participate in. This would allow us time to interact with everyone, accomplishing the "blending" of the Roosevelt community that Blendz wants to accomplish. But again, we were assuming they wanted this so we went around talking with workers at school, finding out if they would enjoy an event like this, what workshops they could offer and what workshops they would like to take. To be honest, I have gotten a lot more excited about having an event like this rather than a fund, but we have to get things moving. I think that we've gotten so caught up in thinking about the workers and what they want, that we're trying to cater to their every need, when in all honesty, they would appreciate the fact that we took the time to organize something specially for them. We have to remember that this is just a prototype and nothing is set in stone. If something doesn't work out, it can be changed. Let's stop pondering and get moving! Go BlendZ!
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