It starts today.

I'm officially starting my 5-blogs-per-week blog today! As I explained before, this will get us major points for the ONE Campus Challenge; 300 points per week! What I find odd is that to mention ONE in a normal blog gets you 75 per day you do it, and after 5 days, you'd have 375 points. Whatever, I'm not really going to worry about it. I like having a blog devoted to ONE.

What we're going to do this week:

SLEB has a meeting every Monday afternoon, so I'm sure we'll start talking about ONE again tomorrow and making plans. Expect a blog about it! We already have a coordinator that deals with poverty awareness (me, Hunger and Homelessness Coordinator), so ONE fits in splendidly with our program.

Sometime in late October, I'm planning an event called Third World Dodgeball. I read about it on the 30 Hour Famine website and it sounds like a very useful tool to teach about the distribution of resources in the world.

The first thing we'll do is make two groups, one big and one small. The big group will pick a name of a third-world country, and the small group will pick a name of an affluent/developed country. After they have their names, we explain the rules. We'll have twelve dodgeballs in six colors - the big group can only use two colors. The small group can use any color dodgeball. The small group is allowed to cross the dividing line between sides to get balls they can use, but the large group is not allowed to cross the line (note: the players must be on their own side to throw/attack). Other rules might include allowing the small group to retrieve players that are "out" when they catch a ball thrown by an opponent, but not allowing the large group's players to do the same.

After the game, I will ask questions about how the game related to the world's situation. So many people are like that large group; they have few rights, they can't afford to do what the tiny little group of people can do. So much wealth of the world is in so few countries - and that's where ONE comes in. I will be able to fit in a blurb about the ONE Campaign nicely. I'll get the email addresses of anyone interested (since people tend to forget), and I'll also tell them the URL for one.org and mention that they can text in their membership on the campaign.

By the way, we're up to 27 in standings!!

We can make poverty history.