Get Your Passport Ready

May 5th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

In no particular order, the 5 students selected for the trip to Africa this summer are:

-Bryant Shannon, University of Florida

-Steven Thai, Luther College, Iowa

-Stephanie Parrish, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

-Melissa Boles, Washington State University – Vancouver

-Tomas Moreno, Wofford College, South Carolina

We at ONE could not be more excited for these five students, who embody everything that OCC is all about. These fantastic students have worked hard all year to raise awareness about ONE and the issues of extreme poverty and global disease. These students mobilized their campus and local communities to advocate for the world’s poorest people, and they made it fun. Lastly, these students have made a commitment to use this trip to further educate their campus and local communities, their places of faith, and students across the region and throughout OCC about ONE and the issues for which we advocate.

These students submitted projects letting us at ONE know how they were going to use their trip to Kenya to further educate and mobilize their communities around the issues of extreme poverty. These projects were evaluated by 2 panels: the first one, consisting of ONE staff, shrank the list from 20 to 10, and then the second panel consisting of board members, partners, and even a representative from ONE’s African office determined our 5. All the projects submitted were stellar, and the judges had a really tough time deciding.

These students have done an incredible job repping ONE and OCC – we know we’ve got a solid bunch!! So on behalf of ONE, pongezi to Bryant, Steven, Stephanie, Melissa and Tomas!

See ya in Kenya, rafiki!

-Maisie Pigeon