Blog Action Day 08: We Don’t Need Coins, We Need Change

Posted by Marc | 15-10-2008 00:01 | Category: Homelessness, Poverty

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Today is Blog Action Day 2008, an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. This year it is all about poverty.
Regular Osocio visitors know we blog often about poverty. No new campaigns in this post but links to the best posts in our poverty campaign archive.

The visual above is from a few years ago and for me is says it all. Helping the poor with food, money and housing is extremely important, but change is even more important.
The campaign was made for Columbus Coalition for the Homeless (USA). Their mission is to work toward ending homelessness by educating the Central Ohio Community about homeless issues and advocating in a unified voice for social and economic justice for all people, especially those who are most vulnerable.
The campaign is made by Little Jacket Visual Communication.

My favourites from the Osocio poverty campaign archive (Click subjects for the complete campaign):


Flood victims need your clothes (Romania):

flood victims need your clothes


100 people:

miniature earth


The chair of Zapatero (Spain):




Winterpark (France):

every winter, hundreds of homeless die on the sidewalks


Trashbin cuisine (Portugal):

ajude


Tent card cutout (India):

support street children


Google Earth maps Crisis in Darfur:

Google Earth maps Crisis in Darfur


A billboard that gives more than just a message (South Africa):

A billboard that gives more than just a message


SMS for lunch (Israel):

sms for lunch


Free Rice:

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Top Jobs Abroad (UK):




Hippo Roller by Project H Design:

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The Messenger/Receiver House (Sweden):

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Best Change Agent helps the homeless (USA):

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The silent protest that moved millions (Israel):




Bookmarks for children (Turkey):

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Can Coca Cola save children’s lives?:

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This is Kroo Bay:

This is Kroo Bay


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Hi Marc, thanks for the Blog Action Day notification on Twitter. Great overview of poverty ads. I chose a different point of view, expressed in this blog post:
http://www.jeroenmirck.nl/2008/10/fight-poverty-with-oscar-wilde/

Posted by Jeroen Mirck | 15-10-2008 01:16


The Columbus campaign is brilliant and ranks on par with the stunning “Too many people eat on the streets” campaign by the Israeli Food Bank that you published earlier this year: http://osocio.org/message/too_many_people_eat_on_the_streets/

Posted by Erin | 15-10-2008 18:13

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