Despite the rain showers, 200 au pairs converged on Eakins Oval in front of thePhiladelphia Museum of Art this weekend to compete in the first annual Au Pair Amazing Race. We had over 30 teams going from station to station beginning at the Art Museum steps and ending up in Old City. They took photos, answered questions, gathered information about the history of the U.S. and ate some pretty interesting foods.
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The winning team came away with a trip to New York City, including a $50 Visa gift card, a Megabus ticket from Philly and a night’s accommodation at the Big Apple Hostel for all six team members. Second and third place teams got gift cards fromStarbucks and Target. The winners of the Suntrek Challenge each received a 50% discount voucher for a future Suntrek trip. All remaining team numbers were put in a jar and a lucky final team winner was randomly chosen to get gift cards just for participating!
Congrats to our group of DE / MD au pairs for racing to a third place finish! Great job, ladies!
The other great part of the day was the amount of money raised for Kids First. Au pairs had the option to raise money prior to the race to earn a Fast Forward card, which helped them complete the race faster. A couple of girls were extremely inspired to raise funds and came to the race with donations of $162 and $505 respectively. Katya, the au pair who came all the way from the Ocean City, MD area with her LCC and au pair group, raised the most money and won a gift certificate for a facial or massage at Terme Di Aroma Day Spa on 3rd Street in Old City.
Between these and other funds raised by au pairs before and during the race, as well as the $1 taken from each registration fee, I am proud to say that we were able to raise over $1,123; Cultural Care Au Pair matches our donations dollar for dollar, bringing our grand total to over $2,246!! We are so happy with this and the generosity we saw truly exceeded our expectations.
We’ve heard great feedback about this event and are already looking forward to making it even better in the coming years! Thank you to Level 1 Fitness and Mirror Image Duplication for sponsoring our event, as well as to the local LCCs who came out to help and support our event!
Extra special thanks go out to the senior members of the Cultural Care Au Pair staff who came to join us for the event, including Program Directors Veronica Thibodeau& Judith De Kort, Development Director Sierra Rix, Director of Sales and Business Development (Northeast) Jenn Guarracino, Director of Customer Service (Northeast)Kristen Tanner, Vice President of US Operations (Northeast) Samantha Janney and Senior Vice President Natalie Jordan. THE BIGGEST THANK YOU OF ALL GOES OUT TO AMY BRYAN LCC in Middletown DE WHO WAS CO ORGANIZER … THANKS AMY
Here are some pictures I took–you can see more here.
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