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March 18, 2010

UGM's hugely successful Orange Day campaign is back for 2010! For the week leading up to April 2, you can transform Vancouver's streets by having fun, helping the homeless community and sharing your adventures online.

Orange Day started because we've always given out oranges at our annual Easter dinner. Yeah, we'd serve over 3,000 scrumptious ham dinners to our hungry, hurting, homeless guests, and at the end of it, everybody gets an orange. It's like saying: take hope home with you. You can start over. You can peel back your addictions and discover a fresh life awaiting through recovery.

But the Orange Day season is about YOU experiencing freshness, too. We're all in Vancouver together, with all the beauty and sadness that comes with it. Don't keep it to yourself: share it, like you would share an orange slice at halftime at a soccer game.

Step 1: Have fun for free. Have a blast enjoying Vancouver's free attractions.

Step 2: Donate what you WOULD have spent to UGM: instead of spending $16 at the movies, donate it to UGM to supply oranges. Planning on spending $70 on a concert with a friend? Think about giving someone a new life through recovery.

Step 3: Blog about what you did. Take photos, make a video, Tweet about it: tell the whole city how you're contributing to UGM, the community's cause. We'll collect it all at ugm.ca to show everybody the awesomeness of our city's people.

What is UGM going to do with the money? Glad you asked: we're giving people oranges, dinners, addictions counselling, job training, housing, and partnering with them to build new lives. Sound a-peeling? Let us know if you’re in!

The Orange Day campaign starts March 27! Stay tuned to our Facebook page for more details, or right here on UGM.ca.

View photos from last year's Orange Day right here!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=156218&id=12687663806&ref=mf