BINGO Ka Na Ba? (Part 1)

13 March 2011, Saturday, 1pm

Rosario Boulevard

A project of Gender And Development in cooperation with POWER, supported by Kap Kaye Dela Cruz and council, in celebration of Women's Month.

BINGO is a well known past time for most women and some men here in our country.  It provides a certain amount of joy and excitement especially if you only have a few numbers left to win.

BINGO ka na ba bingo cards costs 1 peso each but you have to purchase in sets.  1 set is 10pesos each good for 11 games.  Before the first game we asked volunteers from the crown to personally check that the numbers were complete.

For the first five games we gave away cash prizes.  500pesos each for games 1-4 and 1,000pesos for game 5.  In such case that there's more than 1 winner, they were asked to pick a number and whoever gets the highest wins the prize and the others get a consolation in cash not lower that 200pesos.  For games 6-11 we gave away Nokia Cellphones which includes a pretty in pink Nokia C3 for the blackout round.  Also, we raffled out a total of 4,000pesos after the blackout round.

Mechanics of the game are simple, all you have to do is purchase the cards and be there at the venue.  For every set purchased a card is assigned for each game which is indicated by the number at the back.  Since there are only 10 cards per set, for the blackout round they have to pick 1 card  from the set and the remaining 9 will be their raffle entry.

A total of more than 700 sets sold and more or less 200 participants came to spend the afternoon with us.  The aim of this project was to provide fun and relaxation for the hard working women of Brgy Rosario.

Part 2 coming soon.......