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Project Edan™—the PWFC Charity
When the PWFC was founded in 1996 one of our main goals was to support the
charity of Peter Wingfield’s choice. The club has always done some
fundraising, mainly through donations and charity auction items, to help
raise money for the charity. We also sell a few items in the Project Edan Store. Right now, we have wristbands, flash drives, shopping bags, Italian mega charms, and a magnet.
With the birth of Peter and Carolyn’s son, Edan, the fundraising was transferred to Project Edan, the club name for the charity project. Peter and Carolyn wanted all donations raised to be contributed in Edan’s name to their selected charity, one benefitting children.
Initially, we raised funds for the UNICEF UK campaign “Growing Up Alone”. This campaign concluded in 2002. Peter and Carolyn next selected the UNICEF U.S. Fund program called “Orphans of HIV/AIDS” (which became a campaign called “Hope Lives Here”). These campaigns are part of the “Children At Risk” program under which UNICEF launches new initiatives. The new initiative is “Believe in zero”, a call to action launched in November 2008 asking “Americans to join us in putting an end to the daily preventable deaths of 25,000 children”. Peter and the PWFC embraced this initiative at the club’s Las Vegas Convention in November 2008.
As of the end of 2008 Project Edan has raised $105,505 dollars, as a result of individual contributions, auctions, sales of merchandise, and money raised at club conventions.
Recognition
The Peter Wingfield Fan Club is listed
as an NGO partner on the UNICEF U.S. Fund Web site. On June 12, 2003, the PWFC was given a plaque from UNICEF U.S. Fund in recognition of “the love and compassion demonstrated toward the
world’s children especially those children orphaned by HIV/AIDS”.
Click on this link to
read about the presentation.
In November 2008, the club received a letter from UNICEF thanking the PWFC for past help, and explaining what can be done for the “Believe in zero” campaign. Read the letter here.
