I bought 2 bottles of wine at a fundraser for an Ethiopian orphanage run by western volunteers.
This fundraiser was pretty well run - a bunch of organizations just donated things (like cases of wine, ethnic crafts, etc) so all things sold were 100% profit to the cause.
And individual people cooked special (often ethnic) dishes and sold them at specially set-up tables at luch time.
This is a kind of a grass-roots fudnraiser I like - there is no pressure to buy, stuff is quite cheap (because it is all donated) and you get odd things that regular stores don't carry. I got a bottle of luxemburg dry white wine (never heard of it, but I am into trying new things) and a bottle of italian sparkling wine.
Everybody feels they are getting a good deal and something special, as opposed to buying candy you could buy at any store for 6 times the price(that kind of fundraizing feels like another form of begging to me).
Alcohol at a fundraiser - sells better than candy
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I am not that surprised that (the) alcohol sold so well at a fundraiser. Let's face it, people drink when they're happy . . . . people drink when they're sad. It's a win/win proposition. ;-)