Third World Dodgeball: Success!

It rocked! At first, no one showed up, then I got two...four...five...and eventually around 12 people. They had a lot of fun and, though I didn't play, I got pretty excited myself.

Here's another rundown of the rules:

I divided them into teams by having them count off by threes. Odd numbers were on one team, even numbers on another. At this point, they're like "Why are these teams not fair?"

I explain the rules to them - the big team can only use red and orange balls, cannot cross the line, cannot get "out" members back "in" when they catch a ball... the little team can use any color ball (there were 6 colors), can cross the line to get balls, and get members back "in" if they catch a ball.

At this point, the "fairness" cry was in the other direction.

Basically, the point is that there are WAY more impoverished people in the world who don't have very many rights (big team), and there are few people in the world who have lots of rights (little team).

After the game (they played 3 or 4 times), they all gathered around and I gave them candy that had facts about hunger and poverty.

"One in ten U.S. households are living with hunger or are at risk."

"One child dies every five seconds due to hunger."

"Over 850 million people in the world go hungry."

"Six million children die each year due to hunger."

"Make poverty history. Join as ONE. http://one.org."

I called it "Food for Thought." We'll be using what's left over to give to people when they sign up for the Campus Challenge tomorrow while we're tabling in Pyle.

We took loads of video with me talking about the ONE Campaign. I'm so excited.