Stand Up Event: UF Doesn’t Take Poverty Sitting Down

October 27th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

The ONE group at the University of Florida invaded their campus on October 16, World Food Day, to educate their peers about global poverty and disease just in time for Stand Up and Take Action the following day. ONE-UF blanketed a high-traffic part of campus with signs displaying statistics about extreme poverty that other UF students could easily relate to ($40 = a ticket to the FL/GA game or feeds 25 children). The signs helped ONE-UF members to collect a bunch of signatures for ONE’s Upgrade Aid campaign while they simultaneously tabled for new members to their OCC chapter and raising a total of $605 for Bead for Life.

The Gators once again took a big bite out of poverty and earned 1st runner-up in OCC’s Stand Up Event contest and 7,000 points for their efforts.