Waching daily Oct 30 2017

Hello and welcome to this tutorial.

In this video, I'm going to introduce you to

the concept of crowdfunding.

Skolafund.com is a crowdfunding platform,

hence, before you submit your application to us

it is important for you to understand

what exactly is crowdfunding.

Let's go over the concept very quickly.

In a nutshell, Crowdfunding is a method of raising funds

where you collect small amounts of money

from a large number of people.

Normally, crowdfunding is done online

on the internet, via crowdfunding platforms,

or crowdfunding websites like Skolafund.com.

To get a better idea of what I've just said,

let me provide you with an example.

Imagine you have a project that you want to do.

Perhaps you wish to help an orphanage,

or whatever it may be.

And to make this project a reality

you need ten thousand ringgit.

Normally, in this case when you need big amount of money

you would need to approach big

big companies or rich individuals to seek

for their sponsorships.

This can be a really tough process because big companies and

rich people are usually hard to reach

and also have to convince.

With crowdfunding, we don't have to depend solely on

the rich individuals and businesses,

you have an alternative way to raise the funds that you need.

Like i said earlier

crowdfunding is about raising small

amounts of money from a large group of people.

Hence, if you need to raise RM10,000

you just need to create a crowdfunding page online

where you can elaborate more

about the project that you wish to do

and the funds that you need.

After creating the page, you promote the pitch URL

or the link via social media,

spread it your families and friends and you try to

convince them to contribute any amount at all.

It can be as low as one ringgit,

to your crowdfunding campaign.

So, to raise RM10,000

you need to get 10,000 people to give one ringgit

or 1,000 people to give ten ringgit and so on.

All of these would add up to

RM10,000 - the sum of money that you need.

That is what crowdfunding is about.

it's about convincing large group of people

or many people,

to give small amounts of money - whatever that wish to

give you or wish to support you

for your cause of project via that webpage

that you created.

Hope that is clear and direct.

Hope you understand the concept of crowdfunding better now,

if you don't know it previously.

Now that you understand the concept of crowdfunding,

in the next video, we are going to share with you

about Skolafund

and how it works.

and how can you fundraise your scholarships via the platform.

If there's anything that you don't understand from this video

You can simply drop us an email or you can drop us a message

via social media with your questions,

and we'll be more than happy to answer them.

Thank you very much and we'll see you in the next video.

For more infomation >> Tutorial 1 - What is Crowdfunding? - Duration: 3:16.

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Is 15-years-old too old to be trick or treating? - Duration: 4:26.

How old is TOO old for trick or treating? Mother asks if her 15-year-old teen is past the age limit (and many say the cut off age should be in PRIMARY school)

Trick or treating is a tradition that children across the UK will be looking forward to as Halloween approaches.

Many of us will be happy to hand out sweets or chocolates to tots in costume - but would teenagers be as welcome?.

A concerned mother has taken to Mumsnet to question whether or not her daughter is too old to indulge in the tradition.

User Fluffysparks took to the parenting forum writing: 15yo DD (darling daughter) has planned a whole route with her friends.

They know only to knock on the houses with pumpkins, and will be properly dressing up etc.

I've said to her I think she's too old but she would be missing out on a chance to socialise with her (very sensible) friends.

I suppose this is sort of a wwyd?.

It wasnt long before her fellow mothers came forward with their advice - with many agreeing that 15 was in fact too old for trick or treating.

Sparklingbrook commented: 15 way too old IMO (in my opinion).

Ours stopped well before going to High School.

Its for the younger children around here.

i dont know what teens get out of it, they would be better off having a Halloween party than knocking on peoples doors for sweets at that age.

Many members of the thread said that they were concerned that teenagers would be looking for cash rather than sweets.

SheRaaarghPrincessofPower wrote: Anything past primary age is too old.

All the primary kids round here do trick or treat, but are supervised.

Theres always a few teenagers trying their luck though, and they always ask for money.

Another user agreed adding: Id worry that theyd be up to no good or looking for money.

Honestly I dont think Id let her. .

For many mothers their main concern was that a group of teenagers may upset elderly residents.

User someoneelsesstory recalled: My elderly DM (darling mother) was terrified last year when groups of teens banged on the door demanding money.

This year I have advised her to go out . .

At this point the original poster jumped to her daughters defense in the hope to avoid the scrutiny of the mothers.

She wrote: They are a group of 4 very sweet girls and would not be asking for money/banging doors/pushing LOs (little ones) or anything like that (known all of them for years and am very very sure of this) but I know that the size of them could potentially bother people.

There were several mothers who agreed that the teenager should be allowed to join her pals in the tradition.

User SchoolNightWine wrote: I happily give out sweets to the 15+ year olds that visit us.

As long as they're friendly and polite (which they all are that come here), then I just think it's lovely they're still happy to do this..

FairyAnn added: Im with SchoolNightWine, as long as they are polite, respectful, dressed up and are happy to have sweets, not money, then whats the harm?.