30 Hour Famine - Your Movement
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30 Hour Famine - Your Movement
HOW-TO Guide www.famine.ca Special note about this year’s Famine This is the year to “see different” (and “do different” too). This year, leaders can focus more on the issues and the change that is possible — and less on administrative tasks. We told you it would be easier and we really meant it! Here’s how the Famine has changed: 1. Everyone registers individually online 4. It’s all online — the registration, the — you can still form a group, but all the resources, the fundraising — at transactions happen at the individual www.famine.ca. You can still call us to student level. mail you a “kit” if you like. However, we’re 2. It’s easier for you as a group leader. No encouraging people to try doing as much more running to the bank or writing as they can online. It helps eliminate cheques from your personal account! Each unnecessary paper and it also saves on student manages the donation/pledge postage costs. That means less waste of collection process on their own. resources and more money to people who 3. You’re now free to focus on the projects really need it. and issues — the learning — instead of getting people to collect their money (you may still have to encourage people to collect pledges, but in a “take responsibility” kind of way, rather than in a “give me your money” kind of way). How-To Guide — Special Note 2 Table of Contents Part 1: Planning the Event Get Organized How to Choose a Project Media Guide Part 2: Night of the Famine Sample Schedule Famine Activities Part 3: Wrap Up Part 4: Additional Resources (online only) Volunteer Hours/Community Service Form Group Reminder Email Letter for School Administration Support Media Advisory Group Welcome Email Sponsor Email Sample How to Do the Famine and Make the World a Better Place in Six Incredibly Easy Steps Pledge Form How-To Guide — Table of Contents 3 Part 1: Planning the Event Get Organized It’s your Famine event and you can organize it any way you like, but if you need an extra hand, we’ve created a checklist to help you stay on track. Two months before your Famine event, you should: ❍❍ Sign up online. through Facebook, Twitter, phone ❍❍ Get approval from your administration to calls and press releases hold a World Vision 30 Hour Famine. ❍❍ Set a minimum fundraising goal for your group and for participants — this is easier when you have picked a project to fundraise for (see “How to Choose a Project,” below). ❍❍ Confirm (with your administration) how many volunteer hours participants will receive. ❍❍ Hang posters where as many people as possible can see them. ❍❍ If you have a big group, start a Famine Committee. Jobs might include: –– Public Relations: to get the word out to the media and the community –– Promotions: to help generate excitement and spread the word about your event –– Photographer/videographer –– Administrator: to help students stay on top of recording donations –– Event Coordinator: to help organize activities and supplies for your Famine event. ❍❍ Contact local businesses to support your event or to donate. ❍❍ Start promoting your event, make flyers, have PA announcements, and post on your school/church website. Share details on Facebook. One month before your Famine event, you should: ❍❍ Send participants an email reminding them about the Famine event and building ❍❍ Remind them about your project and why this is so important. up anticipation. How-To Guide — Part 1 4 Two weeks before your Famine event, you should: ❍❍ Hold team fundraising events like raffles, car washes, book sales, or auctions (have your photographer/videographer document your fundraisers). announcements, hand out flyers, continue to recruit participants and sponsors. ❍❍ Ask participants to make a final push to collect donations for your project. ❍❍ Keep promoting — make morning During your Famine event you should: ❍❍ Ask your official Famine media person to be in charge of taking photos and videos, tweeting and creating posts on the Famine Facebook page. It would be great to post on your school/church website to show your amazing commitment to changing the world! ❍❍ Hand out “You Did It” Certificates after the 30 Hour Famine. How to Choose a Project Picking a project, and learning more about it, makes fundraising more meaningful for the entire group. Step 1. Step 3. Research the 17 projects. Go to www.famine.ca Go online to check off the box of the project to read stories and watch videos that will help you’d like to direct your group’s fundraising to. inform your group about projects that students Participants cannot see the project that was across Canada are helping to fund. chosen so you must share it in the Step 2. Comments section. Take a poll to decide which project your group wants to fundraise for. How-To Guide — Part 1 5 Media Guide Getting media coverage is a great way to spread the word about poverty and help with fundraising. Here’s how to build the hype for your Famine event to the media: Step 1. that you have chosen. Make it as compelling as Create a contact list. Timing: 1-2 months possible by talking about the kids you will be before the event. helping and explain why it’s of interest to their Find out which newspapers, magazines, and readers/viewers. Let them know how people websites are based in your neighbourhood. can be involved and why they would want Start creating a list of their contact details to attend your event. If your group is large (addresses, email addresses, or enough, you may want to appoint a media telephone numbers). spokesperson to handle the media follow-up. Step 2. This person could be a friend, student, Get in touch with your contacts. Timing 1-4 organizer, or someone who’s doing the Famine. weeks before the event. Step 4. Use the template in the Additional Resources Send a thank-you message. Timing: 1 week section to create your own Media Advisory after your event. letter (press release) to send to your contacts. If someone covered or attended your event, Mention all your event details: date, time, be sure you send them a thank-you. Check out location, contact information, description the Media Advisory template for some hints on of event, who will be participating, and how what to say. people can donate. Step 3. Follow up. Timing: 3 days before your event. Call your contacts and confirm they received your Media Advisory letter. If they have a moment, talk up the Famine and the project How-To Guide — Part 1 6 Part 2: Night of the Famine In Part 2 of the Famine How-to Guide, you’ll find a number of group activities designed to help you stay motivated, teach your group about hunger and poverty, and make sure you have a great time together. Sample Schedule Day 1: April 12th 12:30 p.m. Enjoy your last lunch! Send your last text! Log out of Facebook! Instagram a pre-event photo! Do the last thing you will give up for your personal Famine! Set up the supplies you’re going to need for the Famine activities. Appoint and introduce your official 1 p.m. media representative (in charge of photos, videos, social media, etc.) to your group. Capture the best moments. 1:30 p.m. Welcome everyone officially and go over what you have planned for the Famine event. 2:30 p.m. Get everyone together and take a group photo. If you haven’t given up social media for your Famine, post a photo on Facebook (tagging @World Vision 3:00 p.m. 30 Hour Famine Canada) and Twitter (#30HRFamine) or Instagram … If you have given up social media, find someone else to do it! 3:30 p.m. For those who are fasting, take a juice or water break. 4:00 p.m. Activity (see Activity page or go to www.famine.ca for more great ideas). 5:30 p.m. Juice/water break for those who are fasting, and supper for those who are giving up something other than food. Create a Cultural Dance: Now that everyone is in the musical spirit, it is the perfect time to create your own 6:00 p.m. official Famine dance or song. Work on it together, or divide people into groups (remember to post on Facebook and Twitter!) 9:00 p.m. How-To Guide — Part 2 Juice/water break for those who are fasting, and a snack for everyone else. Work on the last Activity. 7 Day 1: April 12th (continued) 9:30 p.m. Wind things down with a film screening — show a movie that’s appropriate for the Famine. 11:30 p.m. Get ready for bed or head home for the night. 12:00 p.m. Lights out. Note: Many schools do not hold overnight programs. Participants can leave at this time and return the following day to complete the Famine. Day 2: April 13th 9:00 a.m. Rise and shine. If you’re fasting, start the day with some juice or water. 10:00 a.m. Activity (see Activity page or go to www.famine.ca for more great ideas). 11:00 a.m. Juice/water break for fasters. 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Play a round of Famine Jeopardy to remind everyone why they’re raising funds and doing a Famine challenge. Juice/water break. Choose another Activity. Create your Famine poster(s) and express what this experience has meant to you either as a group or individually. (Remember to post on Facebook and Twitter!) Set up your Famine Mini Olympics. Divide up into small teams and play sports, board games, or charades. If you’re feeling competitive, eliminate the teams that lose and hold a championship round. 5:00 p.m. Activity. 6:00 p.m. Decorate your space with your Famine poster(s) and start cleaning up. 7:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. How-To Guide — Part 2 It’s been 30 Hours! You did it! Thank everyone for coming, and tell them they are free to eat/text/go back on social media! The 30 Hour Famine Dance. Invite your friends to a dance. Celebrate and share your experience with everyone! 8 Famine Activities Bring water to the well Create Famine posters or a Feel the difficulties people face in getting graffiti wall clean drinking water. Put a large bucket or Get everyone to write why the Famine is drum somewhere in your school, church, or important to them. community centre, far away from a tap. Have Famine Jeopardy your group fill it using only a small drinking bottle they carry back and forth from the tap. You could even turn this into a race. Create a quiz show around global issues. Make it interesting by having one teacher, one student, and the principal participate. Create a cultural dance Or divide your group into teams and give Create a ritual dance all on your own. Divide everyone a chance to answer. into several groups and vote on the dance your Reflect group likes best. Have everyone in the group write down how Just dance they are feeling about giving up food or Bring in some tunes and just dance! texting or playing online games — reflect on Take a whack at hunger what it’s like to go without. Make sure they Whack a piñata or whatever else that’s fun, like have a posting for their Facebook page by the an old car from a junk yard. end of the Famine event. Have them relate it to The 30 Hour Famine dance their project. Get other students in the school involved in Administrative Junk the Famine by hosting a dance for everyone. Get the participants to enter their sponsors Decorate the gym with the Famine posters you online during the Famine — use the time to created. Charge $2 and put that toward your tidy up all those details. Have a couple of Famine fundraising goal. laptops available. Name that tune Create a poster Play song clips or have participants hum or Make a poster about the project your group read out song lyrics and NAME THAT TUNE. has chosen to support. For an extra challenge, play a song, press Play Minute-to-Win-it pause, and have participants try to sing the Divide into two teams. Each team has a minute next line. to win each game. Come up with challenges Famine movie night using household items — for example, getting Watch a movie with a social theme. six penne noodles onto a spaghetti noodle Mini Olympics Challenge your teachers or each other to a competition. Play anything from sports to board games or video games. Volunteer locally Help out at a local soup kitchen or nursing home. You could also collect cans for a local food bank. How-To Guide — Part 2 without using your hands; using elastic bands to knock over cards supported by clothes pins, etc. Photo scavenger hunt Draw up a list of 15 things that groups have to capture on camera. Give points for creativity, such as getting as many people into the photo as possible or getting strangers involved. 9 Drive-in movie night Team-building activities Have students make “cars” out of cardboard, In smaller teams, students have to work then watch old (terrible) films on a big screen together to complete a series of tasks: while sitting in your “car.” • Back to Back — Two people sit back to Human foosball back and have to stand straight up without It’s like the table game! Tape lines on the using their hands. Add one person every floor. Have students stand on the lines, evenly time they stand up successfully. This is spaced. Every other line is on the same team. a great game or showing students what You can’t get off the lines — you have to pass teamwork can do. to your teammates. • Keep the Balloon Up — Form a circle Make a music video and keep a balloon in the air. Say your name Create music videos for songs you like. when you hit the balloon. You can’t it hit Origami village it twice. In round two, say someone else’s There are great resources online to learn how name and that person has to hit the to make people, animals, plants and other balloon next. things out of origami. Create a scene about For more great Famine activities go to the project your group has chosen to support. www.famine.ca. Photograph life in your selected community and share! (Sample resource: www.origamimake.com/origami-cow-standing.php). How-To Guide — Part 2 10 Part 3: Wrap Up Legal stuff you should know about Here, you’ll find step-by-step instructions to help you wrap up your Famine event. Don’t forget to send thank-you letters to everyone who supported you, and remember, if you have any questions, find us online at www.famine.ca, speak to your Famine Player/Coach, or give us a call at 1-888-8FAMINE. So you’ve raised funds and lasted 30 hours Step 2. without food, texting or whatever you gave up. Make sure all the donations are submitted. To make sure the money you raised can start Call WVC with any questions. helping right away, we need you to wrap up Step 3. your Famine. Get the thank you’s out to the media who Here’s what you need to do. covered your event and to supporters who Step 1. sponsored you. Make sure all the participants have entered Step 4. their sponsors online and have figured out how Prepare a report for the school website or to get the donations to WVC (either PayPal or church bulletin. Talk about how much you credit card or Interac transaction). raised and how much it will help. How-To Guide — Part 3 11 Part 4: Additional Resources We’ve put together some additional resources and tools to help you run a successful Famine event from beginning to end. Resources include a letter for your administration, emails for your group, Volunteer Hour Forms, and more. How to Do the Famine and Make the World a Better Place in Six Incredibly Easy Steps volunteer Hours/ Community Service Form april 12-13, 2013 www.famine.ca 1 Name of Individual: ________________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________________________ City: ____________________ Province: __________ Postal Code: __________________ Name of School/Church: ____________________________________________________ Name of the 30 Hour Famine Group Organizer: ______________________________ Address: __________________________________________________________________ City: ____________________ Province: __________ Postal Code: __________________ Home phone: ( _______ ) _____________________ Email: _________________________ Date of Famine event: ____________________ Today’s date: _____________________ ATTN: SuPErvISOr OF PlANNED COmmuNITy INvOlvEmENT FOr STuDENTS Or OTHEr £ Other The person named above has done a wonderful thing to help children living in poverty. He/she has completed a 30 Hour Famine event, and has raised money so World vision can extend life-saving help to children in need worldwide. This person is a true hero! If you have any questions about this letter or our program, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for supporting our program and this remarkable individual. 30 Hour Famine World vision Canada 1 World Drive, mississauga, ON l5T 2y4 Signature pick a project 5 do your famine for 30 hourS Okay, this is the hard part: GIVE IT UP FOR 30 HOURS. Ouch. Hey, 30 hours will be over before you know it and you can eat, or text, or whatever, again. It goes by fast for you — but not for millions of kids who live in poverty worldwide. They’re the reason you, and thousands of other people across Canada, are doing the Famine on April 12-13, 2013. It’s worth it. Signed by authorized teacher, school representative, or other authorized individual who will confirm that you have completed the 30 Hour Famine (must be 18 years of age or older): ___________________________________ 3 There’s a bunch to choose from. Find one that really fits with what you’re interested in. All the money raised by you or your group will go towards this development project to help kids in real need. This is your way to change the world. (Individual’s name) _________________________________________________________ £ 10 hrs of community service £ 40 hrs of community service Sign up — and Stay tuned — online First thing: Sign up online at www.famine.ca (if your group leader has signed up first, you’ll be able to search for your group there). Why online? Because there’s no paper this year. Think about it: Cutting down trees leads to climate change, leads to drought, leads to famine ... so online is the way to go. Hey, if an e-tree falls in an e-forest, that’s okay. Home phone: ( _______ ) _____________________ Email: _________________________ ___________________________________ Name/Title (please print) 2 decide what you’ll give up for 30 hourS 4 get people to SponSor you 6 collect and hand in the money It can be anything at all: food, texting, video games, you name it. This year’s Famine isn’t like it used to be way back when. Remember when you could only give up food? Now you — or your group — get to choose whatever you like. It’s up to you! Make it a challenge. Can you really give up texting for 30 hours? Are you up to it? Okay, who can you ask? How about everybody? Your neighbour. Your parents. Your aunt. Your friend. Ask them! Keep a record of your sponsors on your own Famine fundraising page. All you have to do is start recording names because your page is ready for you. You can personalize it too! Now make sure you have all the donations your sponsors have promised you. Send the funds to World Vision online (ask an adult with a credit card or Paypal account to make a lump sum payment on your behalf). That’s it! Congratulations! You Did It. You Made the World a Better Place Because You Did the Famine. See Different. See the world in a different way. See it with less poverty, more justice. See it as a better place for children everywhere. Help make it happen — join us for 30 life-changing hours. www.famine.ca Famine Date: join our group: FunDraiSing projeCt: How-To Guide — Part 4 12
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