CHRISTMAS BAZAAR

Engaging stands, affluent tombola

 

Ms. Sandra Sečak, the organizer of the Croatian presentation at the IWCZ Christmas Bazaar which will take place on December 6, from 10 am until 4 pm, at the Open University, has accepted the challenge and will try to one again win the title of most successful donations raiser.

 

In a year of recession, twenty ladies which are helping to organize the Bazaar are hoping to collect at least HRK 20,000 by selling the original and authentic Croatian products with the help of Croatian Chamber of Economy, Croatian Tourist Board and Šibenik-Knin County.

- Croatian IWCZ members will organize a selling exhibition at four stands, that will many present wine and olive oil, quality cheeses and Christmas decorations made of Gingerbread. The products will be offered by a dozen of our members dressed in Croatian folk costumes, as it has become customary on Christmas Bazaar - announced Mrs. Sečak, who became a member of IWCZ three years ago when she and her spouse Krešimir Sečak, CEO Salona group, returned to Croatia after they lived in New Zealand for ten years.

 

First Lady at the opening ceremony

 

She worked there as a chemist in multinational pharmaceutical company Merck, and upon her return to Croatia she devoted herself to raising a son and a daughter. Last year she participated in the Christmas Bazaar for the first time, and she told us how she looks forward to this humanitarian engagement that will help to equip the Šibenik hospital.

The aim of the IWCZ is to collect HRK 250,000 that will help purchase the equipment for the maternity ward of Šibenik General Hospital. Christmas Bazaar is the largest charity event that IWC organizes and this year it will be held for the 16th time. Traditionally it will be opened by the First Lady, Mrs. Milka Mesić, who will be welcomed by the children dressed in national costumes in the International Children's Parade, and 20 countries will have their stands in the Open University.

- We invite visitors to come with their families and friends. It will be a nice opportunity to buy interesting New Year's gifts, books, handicrafts, toys, clothes, a bottle of wine or olive oil, and at the same time do a good deed, and the participation in tomobola, for only ten kuna, is a really nice opportunity to win prizes: the grand prizes are weekends of two in Rome, in a with five-star hotel, Kempinski in Istria or in apartments Trapula in Šibenk - says Mrs. Sečak.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It has become customary on Christmas Bazaar that  the products are offered by ladies dressed in Croatian folk costumes (photographed 2008.)