Over Three Years Later...

It's nice when good memories come back to make you smile.

It was towards the end of August of 2008, and I found a competition online from a website that at the time was very new. During this time, I was very involved with Companion Animal Rescue League (CARL). A rescue group that I still help out to this day.

It was the first ever Helping Hands Charity Challenge sponsored by Brickfish. The Grand Prize for the charity of choice, $250. I was determined to win the grand prize, so I began to make the video.

With help from the CARL's President at the time and a friend of her's, the video was finished and uploaded on September 17th, 2008.

The week after Thanksgiving of that year, I received an email from Brickfish letting me know that the Judges selected my video as the Grand Prize Winner!

It was a pleasant surprise, because it wasn't ranked #1 after the submission deadline. In any case, I really wanted to put CARL's name out because as at this time we were a very small group.

Three years later and almost 600 views from around the world, I'm glad I reached a wider audience. Even though some viewers could not adopt an animal because they were in a different country. At least they saw the vision and our mission in ending pet overpopulation.
               
                 "One Day..." by Daniel

Helping Hands Charity Challenge Brickfish

It means so much more when I can inspire someone, just by using today's technology, while not even knowing the person on the other side of the virtual network of computers.