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Orlando Bloom,Selena Gomez,Martin Luther King attend We Day!
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We Day is an educational event and the movement of our time—a movement of young people leading local and global change. We Day is tied to the yearlong We Act program, which offers curricular resources, campaigns and materials to help turn the day’s inspiration into sustained activation.
We Day is part of a family of organizations, including Free The Children and Me to We, that has a shared goal: to empower a generation to shift the world from ‘me’ to ‘we’—through how we act, how we give, the choices we make on what to buy and what to wear, the media we consume and the experiences with which we choose to engage.
To date, our impacts include:
We Act: 2.3 million youth involved in 7,000 schools in
Canada, US and UK; $37 million raised for 1000 causes; 9.6 million hours of
volunteer hours served
We Day: In the 2013/2014 school year over 160,000 youth and supporters from 4,000 schools have earned their way to We Day through their actions with We Act; 3.7 million Facebook supporters
Long-term alumni studies found: 80% of alumni volunteer more than 150 hours a year, 83% continued to give to a charity, 79% voted in last national election
To date, our development impacts include:
built 650+ schools and schoolrooms, providing education to 55,000 children every day
provided 30,000 women with economic self-sufficiency through our alternative income programs
shipped $16 million+ worth of medical supplies around the world
provided 1 million people with improved access to clean water, health care and sanitation
To date, our impact includes:
More than $5 million has been donated to Free The Children in cash and in-kind
Since 2008 Me to We has planted more than 538,000 trees
In 2012:
By printing on post-consumer waste recycled paper, Me to We has saved 1,476 full-grown trees, 680,273 gallons of water, 43,055 pounds of solid waste, and 142,749 pounds of greenhouse gas
100,000 pounds of pesticides avoided
268,848 hours volunteered
520,306 people inspired through Me to We’s programs and resources
34,948 notebooks given through our buy a book give a book promise
800 Mamas employed by Me to We Artisans
Youth Trips: Upon returning from a Me to We volunteer trip, 93% of youth intend to play a leadership role in social justice activities in their community, 85% are involved in volunteering in their communities after returning from a Me to We trip, and 66% felt they had experienced ‘transformative’ growth in their development as a leader
Speakers & Performers include:
Selena Gomez,
Orlando Bloom,
Martin Luther King 3,
Seth Rogen,
Martin Sheen,
The Tenors,
Magic Johnson & more!
More @ http://www.weday.com/we-day-events/w...es/california/
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Selena's performing! She's also performing @ Border Fest & Houston Rodeo!!! :]
This organization is Awesome, so proud Selena takes part in it! <3
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