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 * 1. The name of your organization**

Working With Care


 * 2. Your specific topic**

We will be focusing on labor issues having to do with the taking advantage of Africans.


 * 3. The purpose- Why are you doing this action?**

We feel there is not enough concern over international labour issues. Africa contains 17% of the world’s population, and a majority of the citizens of Africa are living under USD$2 a day.


 * 4. The message- Why should people be informed about this issue?**

People should be informed because everyone can do something to prevent this issue. For example, not buying a certain product, and filing complaints against companies taking advantage of the population will help. Also, this is a major issue, potentially holding back an entire continent from developing.


 * 5. A goal- make sure this is a project that can be done and hopefully continued**

Our group hopes to raise money through donations and by running interactive activities at our school. We want to set up donation boxes around Shanghai; targeting western restaurants and other stores. The activities we hope to do is a game. People will pay to bowl and knock down pins in order to win prizes. The money we make will be donated to the charity of our choice (potentially Unicef, COOP, ILO, or Reclisa)


 * 6. A short-term plan for achieving your goal (keep it simple and don’t be too ambitious- again make sure you CAN actually do this)**

Our short-term plan will be a 2 week long campaign to raise money at school through our game idea and raising money from local businesses by asking them to keep a donation box in their stores. While we get funds from the donation boxes, we would like to ask the companies if they can sponsor our charity through profits. It will likely take some time to run the idea through the company and gain approval, so the we won't start making money until a few weeks later, which is when we begin our long-term planning.


 * 7. A long-term plan for achieving your goal**

Our long term plan is to seek donations from company profits. This system we came up with involves receiving a small percentage of profit from corporations. When people buy products from companies, such as a Starbuck's coffee, we would take ten cents from the costumers purchase, and take this money as donation. After receiving a sum of money, we would give this money to one of our potential charities like the ILO. This campaign may take weeks to actually receive money from these companies because we have to talk out a contract with a few companies and talk to the charity that is going to receive this money. We hope to have many companies joining our project to help support the organizations trying to help African laborers.


 * 8. Resources needed for this action plan**
 * Drinks (e.g. Coke, Sprite, Fanta, Root Bear, Dr. Pepper)
 * Snacks (e.g. Doritos, Lays, Popcorn, candies)
 * Orange Couch Room
 * Donation Boxes
 * Advertisement (e.g. flyer's, announcements, posters)
 * Locations to place donation boxes
 * Plastic Bowling balls and plastic bowling pins from P.E department
 * MONEY
 * Parent Involvement


 * 9. Division of responsibilities- who will do what?**

James: Part 1, 2; Part 3, 3, 4

David: Part 1, 1; Part 2, 2; Part 3, 1, 2

Arvind: Part 1, 3; Part 2, 1; Part 3, 5

All: Reference information, Conclusion

Organizations that we can donate to: >
 * ILO: addisababa@ilo.org
 * World Vision: See website (Sponsor a Child)
 * RECLISA: info@reclisa.org