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WE DAY 2010 !!:dancin::hysterical::agree:
Free The Children’s We Day is more than just one day of celebration and inspiration. It’s a one-of-a-kind event and part of an innovative year-long program created to celebrate the power of young people to create positive change in the world.
The event kicks off a year-long program of action, called We Schools in Action. We Day is free of charge and open to any school that wants to be part of the experience. In exchange, each school group that attends is asked to make a commitment to follow the We Schools in Action program, which includes taking local and global action throughout the year.
Since 2007, youth from across North America have come together to discover the passion they have in common, to celebrate their successes, to become aware of new challenges, and to build lasting friendships. The We Day events feature speeches and performances from global leaders and social activists, cultural icons and entertainers.
:dancin:
EVENT DATES
SEPT 30 , 2010
Toronto Ontario
Air Canada Centre
OCT 15 , 2010
Vancouver British Columbia
Rogers Arena (formerly known as GM Place)
NOV 12, 2010
Montréal , Quebec
Théâtre St-Denis
SINCE 2007
51,400 students from across the country have attended We Day, and brought the message back to their schools, impacting hundreds of thousands more.
Participating students collectively fundraised to support Free The Children’s Adopt a Village development program.
Young people volunteered more than 150,000 hours to benefit over 500 charities and community groups. With a huge push from the 10 by 10 campaign, youth will log a total of one million volunteer hours by the end of 2010.
The Source:
http://weday.freethechildren.com/about/
Free The Children !!
The Mission:
Through leadership training at home and community development projects abroad, Free The Children empowers youth everywhere to make a difference.
The Free The Children Campaigns:
Halloween for Hunger:
In March 2009, nearly 800,000 Canadians turned to their local food bank for a meal. Over one-third of them were children. In 2008, over 49 million Americans struggled daily to put food on their tables. In our own communities, many people face hunger as a daily reality.
Families throughout North America and the UK are trapped by unemployment or low-wages and the crippling costs of housing and food. Under the stress of poverty, parents have to make impossible decisions between a roof over their family’s head and food in their stomachs.
Every year on October 31, young people trick-or-treat with our Halloween for Hunger campaign, collecting non-perishable food items instead of candy to donate to local food banks. One of Free The Children’s two local campaigns, Halloween for Hunger gives young people the opportunity to help end hunger in their own communities.
Last year, youth from 408 schools donated 217,713 pounds of food to their local food banks. That’s enough to feed 2,221 families for a week, or 555 families for a whole month!
In addition to a how-to guide, flyers and the support of a youth programming coordinator, the Halloween for Hunger campaign includes elementary and secondary school lesson plans to help educators address local hunger and related issues with their students.
Make Local Hunger Disappear:
From Wednesday, October 27 to Sunday, October 31, Free The Children is hosting a one-of-a-kind food drive in support of Halloween For Hunger. Activist, magician and Me to We speaker Scott Hammell will spend five days outside of Union Station in Toronto, Ontario to raise awareness about local hunger, collecting non-perishable food items to help stock food bank shelves in time for the winter season.
For five days and four nights he will be living inside a plexiglass box, asking Torontonians to donate enough canned goods and non-perishables to cover his box and make him “disappear”. Scott will show that while ending hunger is not magic, we can all be part of making local hunger disappear.
The event is in partnership with the Daily Bread Food Bank, where all the food will be donated, and with generous support from Longo’s and One Stop Media.
So, help spread the word about Scott’s awareness campaign, and on October 31, be one of thousands asking, “Trick or treat, and food to eat”
For media inquiries, please contact Sheryl So, PR and Publicity Manager, at sheryl@freethechildren.com.
The Get Involved Youth Link:
http://www.freethechildren.com/getinvolved/youth/campaigns/campaigns.php?type=halloween
The Source:
http://www.freethechildren.com/
The YouTube Videos Of The WE Day 2010 Event:
Greyson Chance sings the Augustana song "Fire" Live 9/30/2010 at We Day in Toronto, Canada:
[YOUTUBE]c7SuhCWfrv0[/YOUTUBE]
The one and only Kelsi Prince, Me to We Mobilizer, teaches 18000 students the official 2010 We Day Dance at the Air Canada :
[YOUTUBE]JxMiX9Ji4Kc[/YOUTUBE]
Stay Tuned more information to come ...:dancin::hysterical::wub::agree:
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MJ TinkerBell..:wub::dancin::agree::angel::clapping:
Free The Children’s We Day is more than just one day of celebration and inspiration. It’s a one-of-a-kind event and part of an innovative year-long program created to celebrate the power of young people to create positive change in the world.
The event kicks off a year-long program of action, called We Schools in Action. We Day is free of charge and open to any school that wants to be part of the experience. In exchange, each school group that attends is asked to make a commitment to follow the We Schools in Action program, which includes taking local and global action throughout the year.
Since 2007, youth from across North America have come together to discover the passion they have in common, to celebrate their successes, to become aware of new challenges, and to build lasting friendships. The We Day events feature speeches and performances from global leaders and social activists, cultural icons and entertainers.
:dancin:
EVENT DATES
SEPT 30 , 2010
Toronto Ontario
Air Canada Centre
OCT 15 , 2010
Vancouver British Columbia
Rogers Arena (formerly known as GM Place)
NOV 12, 2010
Montréal , Quebec
Théâtre St-Denis
SINCE 2007
51,400 students from across the country have attended We Day, and brought the message back to their schools, impacting hundreds of thousands more.
Participating students collectively fundraised to support Free The Children’s Adopt a Village development program.
Young people volunteered more than 150,000 hours to benefit over 500 charities and community groups. With a huge push from the 10 by 10 campaign, youth will log a total of one million volunteer hours by the end of 2010.
The Source:
http://weday.freethechildren.com/about/
Free The Children !!
The Mission:
Through leadership training at home and community development projects abroad, Free The Children empowers youth everywhere to make a difference.
The Free The Children Campaigns:
Halloween for Hunger:
In March 2009, nearly 800,000 Canadians turned to their local food bank for a meal. Over one-third of them were children. In 2008, over 49 million Americans struggled daily to put food on their tables. In our own communities, many people face hunger as a daily reality.
Families throughout North America and the UK are trapped by unemployment or low-wages and the crippling costs of housing and food. Under the stress of poverty, parents have to make impossible decisions between a roof over their family’s head and food in their stomachs.
Every year on October 31, young people trick-or-treat with our Halloween for Hunger campaign, collecting non-perishable food items instead of candy to donate to local food banks. One of Free The Children’s two local campaigns, Halloween for Hunger gives young people the opportunity to help end hunger in their own communities.
Last year, youth from 408 schools donated 217,713 pounds of food to their local food banks. That’s enough to feed 2,221 families for a week, or 555 families for a whole month!
In addition to a how-to guide, flyers and the support of a youth programming coordinator, the Halloween for Hunger campaign includes elementary and secondary school lesson plans to help educators address local hunger and related issues with their students.
Make Local Hunger Disappear:
From Wednesday, October 27 to Sunday, October 31, Free The Children is hosting a one-of-a-kind food drive in support of Halloween For Hunger. Activist, magician and Me to We speaker Scott Hammell will spend five days outside of Union Station in Toronto, Ontario to raise awareness about local hunger, collecting non-perishable food items to help stock food bank shelves in time for the winter season.
For five days and four nights he will be living inside a plexiglass box, asking Torontonians to donate enough canned goods and non-perishables to cover his box and make him “disappear”. Scott will show that while ending hunger is not magic, we can all be part of making local hunger disappear.
The event is in partnership with the Daily Bread Food Bank, where all the food will be donated, and with generous support from Longo’s and One Stop Media.
So, help spread the word about Scott’s awareness campaign, and on October 31, be one of thousands asking, “Trick or treat, and food to eat”
For media inquiries, please contact Sheryl So, PR and Publicity Manager, at sheryl@freethechildren.com.
The Get Involved Youth Link:
http://www.freethechildren.com/getinvolved/youth/campaigns/campaigns.php?type=halloween
The Source:
http://www.freethechildren.com/
The YouTube Videos Of The WE Day 2010 Event:
Greyson Chance sings the Augustana song "Fire" Live 9/30/2010 at We Day in Toronto, Canada:
[YOUTUBE]c7SuhCWfrv0[/YOUTUBE]
The one and only Kelsi Prince, Me to We Mobilizer, teaches 18000 students the official 2010 We Day Dance at the Air Canada :
[YOUTUBE]JxMiX9Ji4Kc[/YOUTUBE]
Stay Tuned more information to come ...:dancin::hysterical::wub::agree:
unk:MJ TinkerBell..:wub::dancin::agree::angel::clapping:
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