The Hat Day

This is a beautiful story --- A kid with cancer got bold from some chemical treatment and had to wear hat to school. He felt sad but only finding out all his classmates were wearing hats, to be with him... Now there is a foundation called "Heavenly Hats" established and named after the story. It is getting very popular in schools.

Today is Katherine's school hat day, to raise fund for the organization. Most kids wore hats to school. All kinds of hats, even some Halloween costume hats. Students also would ask their parents to donate or volunteer for the event.

This is a noble cause and I'd very much like to participate. I wish most of the donated money would go to the cancer treatment research, just like I know this is impossible.

In those non-profit organizations, usually over half of the raised money would go to overhead --- administration, events organization, awareness, etc. Everybody knows about the breast cancer organization, right? There are those pink ribbons everywhere. But from Reader's Digest report, 70% of those donations went to programs in raising more fund about it, very little goes straight to breast cancer research. What a waste of money!