CARING -- OUR WAY OF LIFE |
Governor's Project -- 1/24
"Committing ourselves to experiencing, for one day, what they have for all of theirs."
1/24 was created by 2007-2008 Michigan District Governor Stephanie LaRue when she first read that one billion people, one sixth of the world’s population, live on less than one dollar a day, and decided to do something about it. In addition to the above, consider the following statistics*: *As adapted from the 1/24 flyer and video.
--The average American makes about $112 a day
--Every three seconds, a child dies from preventable diseases.
--100 million children miss out on school completely.
--It would cost $3.5 billion a year, less than the money Americans spend on ice-cream, for every child to go to school
--207.8 million people in Africa are malnourished
--At least twelve children have died in the time it took you to read this brief.
1/24 was created by 2007-2008 Michigan District Governor Stephanie LaRue when she first read that one billion people, one sixth of the world’s population, live on less than one dollar a day, and decided to do something about it. In addition to the above, consider the following statistics*: *As adapted from the 1/24 flyer and video.
--The average American makes about $112 a day
--Every three seconds, a child dies from preventable diseases.
--100 million children miss out on school completely.
--It would cost $3.5 billion a year, less than the money Americans spend on ice-cream, for every child to go to school
--207.8 million people in Africa are malnourished
--At least twelve children have died in the time it took you to read this brief.
A main event for 1/24 is that every summer, students from all across Michigan will get together in a select city in Michigan and live off of one dollar for twenty-four hours. Before this event, they ask friends and family to help support the cause. This event helps increase awareness about the plight of the impoverished and helps contain that poverty by raising money and experiencing for one day what it’s like to be in the shoes of the poor.
A typical 1/24 event starts at 8am and ends 8am the next day. Each attendant is allowed to bring $1 and white sheets, shirts, and markers to make 1/24 gear (Shirts, banners, headbands…etc). During the event are activities that teach students about how it’s like to live in poverty, such as shack making out of boxes, walking miles to the nearest store to spend the $1 on food, and other team building activities.
Schools can also set up their own 1/24 events by finding a specific time and location and inviting students (and don’t limit this to only Key Clubbers) to donate and participate. However, students are not limited to that event in order to participate in 1/24. Anything done to help combat poverty and hunger, such as helping the homeless, spreading awareness, cooking a meal at a soup kitchen, having food and clothing drives…etc will count as participating in the governor’s project.
All proceeds of 1/24 will be donated to three organizations: UNICEF, Action Against Hunger, and Invisible Children. For more information, visit http://www.Myspace.com/1twentyfour, join the Facebook group 1/24, check out the 1/24 video at http://youtube.com/watch?v=8GA-dF7A4LQ. or email at 1twentyfour@gmail.com.
A typical 1/24 event starts at 8am and ends 8am the next day. Each attendant is allowed to bring $1 and white sheets, shirts, and markers to make 1/24 gear (Shirts, banners, headbands…etc). During the event are activities that teach students about how it’s like to live in poverty, such as shack making out of boxes, walking miles to the nearest store to spend the $1 on food, and other team building activities.
Schools can also set up their own 1/24 events by finding a specific time and location and inviting students (and don’t limit this to only Key Clubbers) to donate and participate. However, students are not limited to that event in order to participate in 1/24. Anything done to help combat poverty and hunger, such as helping the homeless, spreading awareness, cooking a meal at a soup kitchen, having food and clothing drives…etc will count as participating in the governor’s project.
All proceeds of 1/24 will be donated to three organizations: UNICEF, Action Against Hunger, and Invisible Children. For more information, visit http://www.Myspace.com/1twentyfour, join the Facebook group 1/24, check out the 1/24 video at http://youtube.com/watch?v=8GA-dF7A4LQ. or email at 1twentyfour@gmail.com.