Volunteers from Ten Thousand Villages walked the runway Thursday evening at a fashion show hosted by the Chrysalis Fund.

Simone Penner is a board member of the Chrysalis Fund. She notes the fashion show was held at the Mennonite Heritage Village and the goal was to raise awareness for their organization as well as Ten Thousand Villages and to raise some money. She notes the money will stay with the Chrysalis Fund.

"It will be going to our operating costs of the Chrysalis Fund so our website domain, our PR, just simple things like that. When our members give to the Chrysalis Fund, it all goes into a capital and we can not draw from that capital, it is invested, it is part of our fund policy. So this is to raise money for our operating costs."

Penner notes the Chrysalis Fund is a group of women that all invest $1,000 upon joining that group. That money is then put in a capital fund and invested. Every year they then grant a percentage of the interest to not for profit organizations in the community and surrounding area that work with children and youth. They currently have 67 members.

Penner says they had a blast Thursday evening watching the volunteers show off clothing from the Nepalese line of clothing at Ten Thousand Villages.

"Watching the volunteers from Ten Thousand Villages do their Milan strut down the walkway with big smiles and all the fun clothes, that was pretty cool. I am sure for some of them it was out of their comfort zone but they were just good sports about it and well received by the crowd too."

With 140 tickets sold to the fashion show, Penner says the whole event was far more successful than she had initially imagined it would be.

the stage was set for Thursday evenings fashion show