2008 Woodie Awards
'ONE' new club, takes aim at AIDS, HIV awareness issues
Joshua Cameron
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: Fuse
Originally published: 4/19/07 at 4:02 PM EST
Last update: 4/19/07 at 4:24 PM EST
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Every three seconds someone dies from extreme poverty.
That's 20 people a minute, 120 people an hour and 2,880 people a day.
"ONE" is a nation-wide campaign to put an end to poverty and raise awareness of AIDS through petitions, demonstrations, and movie screenings, among other events.
The name of the organization was taken from the idea that giving an additional one percent of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food would completely turn around the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries.
"ONE" has now reached out its hands to Plattsburgh State.
The group first established a representation on campus last spring and since then has made their presence through fund rasing, awareness projects, movie screenings and discussions.
One project was designed to show students how much food they waste on a daily basis.
This was done by removing every tray from the dining halls, which gave students an idea of how much food they were using each time they ate because they had to carry everything in their hands.
"ONE" received the right to be a permanent group on campus when the Student Association Senate voted unanimously in the group's favor during the SA Senate meeting Wednesday evening.
P.J. Miller has been involved with "ONE" since its establishment on campus a year ago.
She said the group began to meet more regularly this semester and therefore thought it was right to seek out official club status in order to have a better standing on campus.
Miller and the other local members of "ONE" are currently working with Bread for the World Institute, a Christian organization dedication to alleviate hunger around the world.
Miller said "ONE" currently has plans to raise awareness of the displacement of the children of Uganda to avoided kidnapping and being forced to become child soldiers.
They will be showing the movie "Invisible Children", which is a documentary dedicated to this topic.
"ONE" will also hold a localized version of the "Displace Me" event which will be held Saturday, April 28, outside of the Angell College Center.
Those who attend the event gather in one designated area to sleep for a night. This mass gathering shows onlookers what the children in Uganda must do every night when they travel into the city from the countryside to find a place to sleep.
There is a nationally organized "Displace Me" held in New York City on the same date.
"(Our goal) is to come together as a campus of one," Miller said. "We try to raise the awareness of poverty and HIV and AIDS. One in five people live on less than a dollar a day and it's kind of ridiculous."
That's 20 people a minute, 120 people an hour and 2,880 people a day.
"ONE" is a nation-wide campaign to put an end to poverty and raise awareness of AIDS through petitions, demonstrations, and movie screenings, among other events.
The name of the organization was taken from the idea that giving an additional one percent of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food would completely turn around the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries.
"ONE" has now reached out its hands to Plattsburgh State.
The group first established a representation on campus last spring and since then has made their presence through fund rasing, awareness projects, movie screenings and discussions.
One project was designed to show students how much food they waste on a daily basis.
This was done by removing every tray from the dining halls, which gave students an idea of how much food they were using each time they ate because they had to carry everything in their hands.
"ONE" received the right to be a permanent group on campus when the Student Association Senate voted unanimously in the group's favor during the SA Senate meeting Wednesday evening.
P.J. Miller has been involved with "ONE" since its establishment on campus a year ago.
She said the group began to meet more regularly this semester and therefore thought it was right to seek out official club status in order to have a better standing on campus.
Miller and the other local members of "ONE" are currently working with Bread for the World Institute, a Christian organization dedication to alleviate hunger around the world.
Miller said "ONE" currently has plans to raise awareness of the displacement of the children of Uganda to avoided kidnapping and being forced to become child soldiers.
They will be showing the movie "Invisible Children", which is a documentary dedicated to this topic.
"ONE" will also hold a localized version of the "Displace Me" event which will be held Saturday, April 28, outside of the Angell College Center.
Those who attend the event gather in one designated area to sleep for a night. This mass gathering shows onlookers what the children in Uganda must do every night when they travel into the city from the countryside to find a place to sleep.
There is a nationally organized "Displace Me" held in New York City on the same date.
"(Our goal) is to come together as a campus of one," Miller said. "We try to raise the awareness of poverty and HIV and AIDS. One in five people live on less than a dollar a day and it's kind of ridiculous."
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