On April 18th, tens of thousands of young activists will go silent to honor all those around the world who are without a voice. I'd like to encourage you to do it too.Free the Children's 'We Are Silent' campaign is approaching rapidly, and it's a great chance for those of us who want to make a difference, but don't quite know how to go about it. The challenge is to go silent for 24 hours, supporting those who are voiceless due to poverty and exploitation.
For each hour, you can pledge a dollar. It really does make a difference. $50 can provide classroom supplies for a school, and $100 gives a family clean water. With more, we can build a community or well or even a school itself. There are so many ways we can make a difference through the 'We Are Silent; Campaign. Set yourself a goal of going silent for an hour, or two. Because anything helps.
Check out this video about the 'We Are Silent' Campaign:
Learn more at http://www.freethechildren.com/get-involved/campaigns/we-are-silent/
Good start for info, but I have one question. When is it? What do I do for school? How can I pitch it to the entire school?
ReplyDeleteArjun- great post, but just a tip- when describing an event, give all of the necessary info ppl would need to actually take part in the event in the blog post itself. Then, you could direct them to the website.
Just a thought...
Cheers!
Actually, never mind about the time part. But the other two questions remained standing.
Delete1) April 18th
Delete2) If you can challenge yourself to stay silent for as much time as you think is possible, and donate one dollar for each hour you stay silent, you would be making a huge difference, really.
3) We'll use our club to announce it through the Morning Announcements and send it to all the advisories, Taking this project on as a school is much harder, but there's no harm in trying.
Hey Arjun
ReplyDeleteIs it alright if I wrote an article about child soldiers to put on Youngzine?
Thanks,
Nikhil
Definitely. Please do, we would love to have your article on Youngzine.
DeleteWhen you have finished, submit it to ( editor@youngzine.com ). It should be published between the next two weeks.
Just a friendly note, next time that you have something about Youngzine, please comment there and not on my blog, it makes things less confusing :)
Of course haha :)
DeleteI just didn't know where I should have commented if I was to put it on Youngzine