Help Us Sponsor a Truck on the Next Burrumbuttock Hay Runners Hay Run - You Could Also Win a 2018 STEEM SILVER ROUND
Last week Team Australia started our #hayrunners fundraiser, which aims to raise $2500 to sponsor fuel for a truck load of donated hay to be transported to one of the many severely drought affected areas in outback News South Wales and Queensland. The Burrumbuttock Hay Runners are sending a huge fleet of trucks in January 2019 to one of these areas, and we're trying to help them get there. The trucks, the drivers, and the hay are all donated by anyone who is able to. We're here to fill as many tanks as we can to help them on their way. The Steem community has taken up the challenge, and we're on our way to reaching that target, but it's going to take the whole community to get us to the $2500 we need. At the same time we will be promoting STEEM with a huge banner across the side of the truck (or trucks) as they travel to where the hay is needed.
Join the Fundraiser
You can keep up with, and support the #hayrunners fundraiser posts by watching the feed here. If you're using the tag, be sure to state clearly whether your liquid post rewards will be donated to the #hayrunners fundraiser. Any post I publish using the #hayrunners tag, including this one, will have its liquid post rewards donated to the #hayrunners fundraiser. I am pooling those rewards into my savings wallet for now while I'm running my 2018 STEEM SILVER ROUND RAFFLE. More details about that below. Once the post pays out, I'll be withdrwaing the STEEM and SBD, and sending it straight to @teamaustralia.
How about showing some support for our community members who are donating their liquid post rewards to the #teamaustralia fundraising drive. Here are a few recent posts you may have missed:
@scooter77 - Rain Rain, Oh where have you been - #HayRunners
@jk6276 - Weekend Freewrite - 8/25/2018 - Single Prompt Option: spent and tired (my freewrite 28)
@kaelci - Word Poetry Challenge #12: Sunshine ~(For #HAYRUNNERS)~
Just how much does some rain mean to the farmers?
Over the weekend, rain fell in a few drought-stricken areas. Not a lot of rain, but enough to cause a small celebration for those who hadn't seen rain in what would seem like an eternity. Here is a farmer's reaction to the rain on the weekend... If you don't want to see a bare farmer's butt, then don't click it...
It's not enough rain to say the drought is broken, not by a long way, and grass and feed doesn't grow overnight, but it will bring some short-term relief to those areas it fell in, and may help to keep the farms and livestock going for a little while longer, until more rain comes, or some much-needed help arrives. This is where we're focusing... the help.
How can you help?
This is very much a community effort, and success will only be achieved through a huge effort by everyone.
Every fraction of a SBD or STEEM helps with the fundraising effort, and a simple upvote or resteem will cost you nothing. This is a great opportunity to exercise our strength in numbers, and help demonstrate the power of STEEM with a real-world application.
You could write your own post about anything, and donate your liquid rewards for the post the @teamaustralia account, or even make a donation of any amount directly to @teamaustralia as well. No amount or contribution is too small!! It all goes towards reaching that goal.
ENTER A RAFFLE!
You could also enter my 2018 STEEM SILVER ROUND RAFFLE. I'm raffling off my 2018 Steem Silver Round coin number 665. Tickets are 1 STEEM or SBD each, with all proceeds going to @teamaustralia for the #hayrunners drought relief appeal. Head over to my raffle post for more details about the Burrumbuttock Hay Runners, and the raffle which ends in about 4 days time. Tickets can be bought from me by transferring 1 STEEM or SBD to my account with "Hayrunners raffle" in the memo section. With 59 Tickets already bought, I'd love to be able to sell 100 tickets to contribute towards the #hayrunners fundraiser.
All liquid rewards from any post I publish using the #hayrunners tag will be donated to the charity drive.
