On the OCC Blog!

I was asked to submit a blog for the OCC, and here it is!

Wilmington College (Wilmington, OH) didn’t win the “On Campus Educational Project” with these, but I was asked to blog about them.

The first thing we did is a really easy, interactive way to spread the word about the ONE Campaign. I folded sheets of construction paper in half and put a huge question mark and the words “Did you know” on the front. On the inside, I wrote a statistic about world hunger and poverty. It’s more unique than just posters or flyers because people get intrigued and then they go to read the inside…not knowing what they’ll find. The idea was to shock people with statistics and inspire them to get more involved to make a change in the world.

Pictures of the “Did You Know” cards are on Flickr.com with the tags “WILMTONOH” and “ONE.” Click here to check out the set.

The second thing we worked on is a game called Worldopoly. Obviously, it is modeled off Monopoly, but we used the GDPs of all the countries in the world to make a ratio that directly related them to the values on a traditional monopoly board. For railroads, we used the four highest grossing oil producers in the world. For the “Water Works” property, we substituted a new well for the community, and for the “Electric Company” property, we substituted yearly vaccinations for the community.

Click here to check it out on Flickr.

In addition to these projects, we also set up a table in Pyle and asked people to take short quizzes about poverty. When they were finished, we gave them a fact sheet with the answers and information on how to get involved with ONE.

-Caitlin Reed