This weekend was the FIFTH annual Spina Bifida Awareness Raid Train that I hosted over on Twitch with a few live streamers to come together once again in the month of October, which is Spina Bifida Awareness Month, and we set out to raise some funds that would go to the Spina Bifida Association of Texas.
I wanted this year to be much, much more than what it had been in the past however that did not turn out to be unfortunately. Needless to say, the event as a whole was extremely successful.
We started this year's event earlier in the morning than what has happened before. One of the streamers who participated had heard about this event and actually started asking around on how they could be a part of it.
It was incredibly kind for makr_plays to join us this year all the way from The Netherlands. This was the first time we had a live streamer from Europe join us.
The remainder of the day was okay. We had some new people joining us. And quite a few who joined us again since their first time last year. It was a great time.
This year though I set the donation goal high. In 2025, we had raised $1,210 USD and so that is what I made the goal for 2026 with the idea that if we raised more than that than we had broken some records.
At first, I was reticent about doing it that way. I did not want people to look at that number and think that it was too high of a goal to reach. Throughout the beginning of the day, I had thought about lowering it down and then stretching it upwards as we went along. Thankfully I did not do that.
We weren't even at the end of the event when we reached that original goal of $1,210 and it just kept going. That is always something that is welcomed.
With last year we had $1,210 which was donated by 44 individual donations. THIS YEAR???
$1,712 USD given by 49 individual donations.
A special thank you to those who donated.
A personal thank you to everyone who showed up to participate:
Crrissa_the_cyberbard
JefroTheMusicAddict
overkill_jill
ViolinElf
FriedenAndFriends
jon_oakwood
VaidahK and SarahCameronMusic
If you are on Twitch, please go follow ALL of these wonderful performers.
We are already looking forward to 2027 at this point if we are going to be honest!! Hopefully many of these people will return next year.
The fundraiser for this year, will be open and available if you decide that you wish to donate. The fundraiser will close on the 31st of January in 2027.
