We are part of a local community in the city of Pasay in Philippines. Since last year, we started organizing events for the feast of our patron saint, Our Lady of Fatima, to provide entertainment and create a positive atmosphere within the community.

How we fund the expenses:
* Send solicitation letters to the entire neighborhood for financial support.
* Reach out to our local politicians to provide trophies, crowns and other prizes.

However, we are still not getting enough from our community since it is relatively small. Also, we do not want to make it a habit to reach out to local politicians, as we feel like we are indebted to them in so many ways and we do not want the next generation of organizers to feel the same way. We do not want us and the next batch after us to feel obliged to support them just because they helped us, as that may not be how everyone in our organization feels.

And so we decided to reach out to people from outside our community. We think it will be better to reach out to those who will be willing to help us without expecting anything in return. And as our organization grew bigger and more of our community's youth gain interest in joining and participating in the activities, we have decided to not focus on celebrating our feast alone (which happens October every year), but to come up with activities that will be beneficial for the entire community as well.