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Shots for Shots
This was a very successful event that was put on last year for the Measles Initiative. With this particular activity we were able to appeal to a different segments of the JHU population and incorporate both students and professors into our basketball-themed fundraiser. Over ten teams were selected to play in a week long tournament. The winners won not only a trophy, but also a chance to play a selected team of professors.
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College Idol
One of our anticipated events that we would like to put together is a college American Idol contest. We plan to hold auditions and a school wide contest at JHU in March or April, and then partner up with other local area Universities to hold a region wide event in April or May. We feel that this type of popular culture event will really create a great interest among students, professors, the local community, and definitely the local media. Another great component we wish to include will be an amazing prize for the winner-singing the national anthem at the Redskins or Ravens game. We plan to use all ticket sales to fund raise for the South African Red Cross's After Music program. We would not only donate funds, but at the contest we would ask people to bring any old CD's, and cassette tapes so we can give to less fortunate youth.
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Blind Date
On Wednesday, July 05th, 2005, 268 couples, 538 people at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore met to beat the Guinness Book of World Records for the most couples on a simultaneous blind date. Vision Xchange (a student organization emulating the mission and programs of the International Committee of Red Cross and Red Crescent) hopes to gather 1,000 people to set the new world record through the support of the Johns Hopkins institution.
We hope that this project will take place on the Homewood campus as feature of Spring Fair. We will charge all participants $10 a plate and receive food, chairs, venue, etc through donations. Thus, our community service organization hopes to raise $10,000. All proceeds will go to HIV/AIDS treatment of the infected youth of Baltimore city who cannot afford medication. Baltimore has the highest rate of persons under the age of 14 who have been infected with the virus within any metropolitan city in America. This event will not only serve as a fundraising project, but it will also be a forum on AIDS awareness. Simultaneously, we will solicit and discuss information on the dating customs of different cultures, thereby promoting diversity throughout the Hopkins.
All members of the Johns Hopkins institutions from the School of Advanced International Studies to the Medical Campus to the Advanced Physics laboratory will be invited. Inner-city high school students over the age of 18 and refugees in Baltimore will also be encouraged to participate in this event. Therefore, both the Baltimore city community and all persons within the Hopkins institution will benefit from this project, not to mention the HIV/AIDS victims who will be receiving our funds.
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Seminar, Speaker Series, Trainings
One of the founding principles of V|X is to raise awareness of serious international issues and to create responsible leaders for tomorrow (us!). We will get speakers to inspire and motivate us on how we in American can support those in need worldwide. The speakers will form an eclectic selection of panelists, ranging from the Chinese Red Cross to the Israeli Red Star and the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Aside from the seminars, we will also organize a training session for diversity leadership and International Humanitarian Law. One of our long term goals is to give our members real and hands-on experience so they will be able to travel the world and help those in need via the most effective way possible - direct interaction. While donating and holding charity events are fantastic, becoming a globally responsible leader can only be achieved after one has eye-witnessed tragedy; after one has seen the heart-felt smiles of those you have helped.