On the 30 of April 2003, Foundation Save a Russian Child participated in the Queens Day street market for the second year running. Selling toys, CD's, Video's, second hand clothes…you name it, we sold it! All with the purpose of raising funds for the Project "Infuse Pumps" for the Regional Children Hospital in Simferopol.

This year we set up our stall on crossing of Apollolaan and Beethovenstraat, with sales commencing at 6:30am. Everything went perfectly in the morning, the weather was nice, dry & the Market was packed with people searching for bargains-Trade seemed to be going well. But around 1pm the heavy rain began and after having waited for two more hours showed no signs of stopping. So we packed up the remainder of our items & left the washed out Market place, a bit disappointed that due to the unforeseen circumstances we may not have managed achieved our full potential.

However despite of the unfortunate turn in the weather conditions early in the afternoon we still managed to raise the amount of 305 euros. Which although might not seem a great deal, will contribute to helping the children at the hospital.

So all in all the campaign was successful and produced the desired result! Now we are patiently waiting for the next Queen's Day!

We would like to express our gratitude to the enthusiastic volunteers:
Carlo Ziviello, Julie McCulloch, Penka Fonseka, Marina Kouzakova - and to everyone who contributed to make this campaign a success.