October is Spina Bifida Awareness Month in the USA. I just recently found that in Canada, the awareness month is in June.
Great things happened most recently as I hosted and organized a fundraiser for the Spina Bifida Association through the live streaming platform of Twitch. Several streamers gathered to participate in this event. As well as a few streamers who were behind the scenes and supporting the event with organizing it and finding those who would agree to participate.
Things got started early with a gaming stream before the actual event started. Then it moved on to the main event which included several gaming streams as well as music and cooking streams. The lineup was very diverse and very supportive.
A few highlights worth mentioning here were the fact that the song "Lullaby" by Ottawa based singer-songwriter Danielle Allard was performed FOUR SEPARATE TIMES from various streamers.
There was a heart racing moment when during the evening I received an e-mail that had a screen capture attached to it showing that someone had privately donated $1,000 to the fundraiser, but moments later I received a follow up e-mail stating that the amount was made in error as the person sending the donation pressed too many zeros in the amount. Thankfully for them, that issue had been resolved.
We will never really know just how much money was made through donations as they were made privately on the Spina Bifida Association website. Some streamers did show how much they were going to donate, and a few other people reached out to me privately telling me how much they donated. But the grand total from the entire event will never really be known.
What I find amusing is that this happened over the weekend. And whoever is heading up the donation department for the SBA is going to find these sudden donations coming from all over the world when they get into work Monday morning.
I want to do it again next October. My wish is that we have more streamers involved in the event.
I would once again like to thank those who participated in the fundraising event whether they streamed or helped organize everything from making graphics to gathering streamers together. If you are on Twitch and enjoy music or video games, by all means please do follow these magnificent streamers.
OPENER & CLOSER
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