Long-time credit union and development organizer Carol Schillios recently raised roughly $92,000 for her work in Africa- by spending 113 nights on the roof of a building in Edmonds, Wash., according to The Seattle Times.
The building houses Fabric of Life, a shop where Schillios sells the woven goods made by students at a school for homeless girls in Mali that Schillios supports. Schillios, 57, originally vowed to live in a tent on the roof of her shop in downtown Edmonds until one million people had donated $1 each to her Schillios Development Foundation, a nonprofit foundation from which Schillios takes no money and has only volunteers, the Times reported.
She dropped her goal to $100,000 when it became clear that the original goal might have been too ambitious. Schillios, whose work in Africa and other efforts has won her a Herb Wegner Award from the National Credit Union Foundation, told supporters that she changed her goal when wind on top of the "roof blew one of the zeros away" from the original goal, the paper reported.
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The effort has made her and her effort much better known in Edmonds. The paper reported that the blue tarp tent she lived in was visible along main street in Edmonds and that she would often get stares, waves and donations of coffee and food the public.
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