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1.The name of your organization:
 * WUPO** Wake Up to Poverty Organization!

2.Your specific topic: Our specific topic is child poverty in Rajasthan.

3.The purpose- Why are you doing this action? India plays a major role in world economy as well as manufacturing products. The GDP of India has grown from 99,340 in 1950 to 832,690 in 1975. From this we could see the rapid rate of India's development. India's population in 2009 5th of February is 1,144,050,000 - 16.94% of the world's population. Even though India's rapid development continues, poverty still exists and it's also growing rapidly. Our assigned topic is Poverty and we chose India because it takes a big part in world economy. Rajasthan is the the biggest state in India and it is also the poorest so we chose to help the children in Rajasthan. Children is the only hope for humanity's future and since we are also students, we can have better ideas that is suitable for children. Our action to help this issue is to make a poster that contains a lot of facts about the poverty in Rajasthan and how it is a global issue. Then we will photocopy the poster and paste it in our school to raise awareness. Later, we could put the posters that we have created in other places such as expat communities like Jinqiao so we can inform this global issue to more people. Johnny could put the posters in Hongmei road since a lot of expats go by that streets. Later, we could make the posters in chinese so we can even inform  the locals about this issue!  Lastly, we could earn some money by merchanting. Buy food and drinks that people like a lot such as Snapple and sell it for a price that is higher than the price that we bought and we will earn some moeny. The money could be donated to the India Red Cross via Shanghai Red Cross although this idea is not yet confirmed workable. If this goal is not achievable, we will still donate money to the Shanghai Red Cross since the money will go to the same issue but it's just a different specific topic  4. The message- Why should people be informed about this issue? People should be informed about this issue because poverty is a global issue right now. More than 25,000 people die every day of hunger. Also, lots of people are not being educated because they are poor-beings. In addition, once poverty has affected the poor people, it will eventually affect us because it is actually the poor people has is doing the hard work like working in factories to make the stuff we use in our everyday lives or planting vegetables and farming animals for the food we eat. If they died, then there will be a massive decrease on the manufacturing of products and therefore we will need some people to do the manufacturing and the farming in order for us to survive. If more people get to know about this issue, they would have the chance to help the poor. Even though the organizations that are working on poverty has increased during the recent years, they still need to get more support. People should be more interested in helping the poor people because eventually, they will notice that they are actually helping themselves but there are very few people who would use their time to help others since they only care about themselves.

5. A goal- make sure this is a project that can be done and hopefully continued Our goal is to first make a poster to raise awareness and earn money to donate to the shanghai red cross    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) A plan that we made for achieving our goal is Our plan: 1) First, make a poster and paste around our school 2) Start to paste the poster around expat areas 3) Make the poster in Chinese version and paste it around local communities   <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">  <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 4) Earn money by merchanting food and drinks    <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 5) Donate the money to India Red Cross Via Shanghai Red Cross (Or just donate money to Shanghai Red Cross because the money will still help the poverty issue but not our specific topic.

7. A long-term plan for achieving your goal We would like to first achieve our short term plan. Then we would like the spread the awareness not just in shanghai but maybe in different parts of China or urban cities near Shanghai such as Hangzhou or Nanjing. Later, we could start a fund raise by merchanting food and drinks. We could also make giving tree bags in which we give the bags to international schools around Shanghai where the students could donate anything to some of the poor children in Rajasthan. The money that we earn could be donated to India Red Cross via Shanghai Red Cross. We have already contacted a Red Cross branch that is near Rajasthan on ways we could help the children there so more ideas will be coming soon. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Lastly, we could carry a basket full of brownies or cookies where we will walk around Hongmei Road and sell them. We could tell other people what's the project that we are working on and what we are going to do with the money etc. Then we will take a photo with the buyer to show Mr.Small that we really did this.

8. Resources needed for this action plan We can use some of the resources from our fact sheet to put some basic facts on our poster. We also did lots of research from the internet of organizations that are also working on this issue/specific topic. The URL of these websites that we used to help us will be cited. Also, we can put some of the pictures that we found that are related to poverty. We could also get some ideas on how we could help the children in Rajasthan while we are in Shanghai from the India Red Cross. Some of the organization sites that we found in which people can get involved in can be helpful because we can show them some of the groups that are working toward this issue, get them motivated for voluntering to help and also to raise awareness out of it. Our wiki sites can be also added to one of the helpful resources because people can see what are we working on and get basic ideas about our plan and our goal.

9. Division of responsibilities- who will do what? We can all contribute ideas and gather it all together make a poster. Some of the decorations can be done by Ji in or Nahyoung. We can photocopy it together and paste it on different parts of Shanghai and even in SAS. We could also try to earn money by buying food and drinks that people like a lot from shops and sell them for a higher price at school (Merchanting Buy for Less, Sell for More) Johnny could try to donate money to the India Red Cross via the Shanghai Red Cross although we are still trying to contact the India Red Cross on whether we could do this or not.