2025 fundraiser wrap up

Our 17^th annual fundraiser has concluded with Lego donations to 17 locations in 10 countries across the six continents. As always, our donations were made to diverse organizations with the central theme of benefiting underprivileged children. This included orphanages, hospitals, humanitarian organizations, schools, shelters, and more. Thank you to all our donors, supporters, and volunteers for allowing us to continue gifting Lego sets to kids in need.

This year, we sold over $4,600 of custom creations and raised $7,275 from our annual live-stream hosted by Beyond the Brick. We received additional large donations including $9,000 from The Great Palia Charity Hunt organized by Behind the Lash Streaming, $3,000 from Brick Convention, and $1,500 from Brickworld. Each coordinator received $1,000 to buy as much Lego as they can and donate to a local organization that benefits underprivileged children. This amount was less than the $1,500 we allocated to each coordinator in recent years. At the end of our last fundraiser, our residual funds were running low, and given the unpredictability of each year’s donations, we decided to play it safe and carry over more funds into next year.

I want to highlight a donation experience from Fabio, our coordinator in Bolivia. In his goal to donate Lego to each of nine departments of Bolivia, he had to overcome geopolitical barriers causing local conflicts and road blockades in a country where there are no Lego stores or authorized retailers. In the end, the Lego sets reached in a remote Amazonian region in Pando, Bolivia, where they were given to 30 children from the ministry "Ministerio Oasis."

Once in a while, we receive a message on the impact of the Lego donations. Shortly after my wrap up post of the 2024 fundraiser, we received a message from RefuSHE, a refugee center in Nairobi, Kenya. It described how Lego helped a girl open up to other kids and improved her mental health. Hearing stories like this has been very fulfilling in knowing our donations have changed lives.

You can help by spreading the world about what we do and reach out to Lego conventions and businesses if they want to support out cause. Influencers and communities can help by creating their own fundraiser benefiting Creations for Charity on Tiltify, an easy-to use fundraising platform that we use for our live streams.

As always, I am grateful to the continued support from the generous Lego community, which has made Creations for Charity the longest continuously running Lego charity. I look forward to seeing you in our 2026 fundraiser in October!

Nannan Zhang

 Creations for Charity Founder and President