WKU Americans for Informed Democracy
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The Mission of AID
AID stands for Americans for Informed Democracy, a nonpartisan national organization which empowers young people in the United States to address global challenges such as poverty, disease, climate change, and conflict through awareness and action.
The Vision of AID
Every American young person is empowered to effectively contribute to peaceful, healthy, just and sustainable solutions to the world's greatest challenges.
Americans for Informed Democracy works with young people, particularly students, to promote an interconnected world through:
Awareness: AID works across the political spectrum, with people from all backgrounds and identities, by facilitating educational dialogue through conferences, workshops, film screenings, video conferences, and op-eds.
Advocacy: Building on awareness, AID provides toolkits and trainings to empower young people to talk to their peers and policy makers in order to advocate for a sustainable, equitable world.
Action: AID supports young people in organizing local and national campaigns and initiatives that have positive global impact.
AID at WKU
In the fall of 2007, five Hilltoppers with similar passions came together to form an organization on WKU’s campus to find real solutions to some of the biggest problems facing our world. Our first goal was to engage our campus in the ONE Campaign's Campus Challenge, a competition between over 1500 universities in which WKU came out on top. Over the course of the year we united the university as ONE to take on global poverty and in doing so we won the title as “Most Globally Aware Campus” in the nation. We also received special praise from the king of activism himself, Bono, for our efforts with ONE.
After our first year the bar was set pretty high but in the 2008-2009 academic year we kept the momentum up with legislative visits, rallies against poverty, international video conferences, fair trade trick or treating and scavenger hunts, hunger banquets, awareness tabling, and the list goes on... We even managed to persuade our university president to live on less than $2 for ONE day together with a mayoral candidate and 130 WKU Hilltoppers all to experience ONE day in solidarity with the more than 2 billion people in the world living on less than $2 a day. In the 2009-2010 academic year we will continue to push even harder to address the issues of sustainability and justice on our campus as we are aware of our impact on the world's poorest people through our coal powered university.
AID stands for Americans for Informed Democracy, a nonpartisan national organization which empowers young people in the United States to address global challenges such as poverty, disease, climate change, and conflict through awareness and action.
The Vision of AID
Every American young person is empowered to effectively contribute to peaceful, healthy, just and sustainable solutions to the world's greatest challenges.
Americans for Informed Democracy works with young people, particularly students, to promote an interconnected world through:
Awareness: AID works across the political spectrum, with people from all backgrounds and identities, by facilitating educational dialogue through conferences, workshops, film screenings, video conferences, and op-eds.
Advocacy: Building on awareness, AID provides toolkits and trainings to empower young people to talk to their peers and policy makers in order to advocate for a sustainable, equitable world.
Action: AID supports young people in organizing local and national campaigns and initiatives that have positive global impact.
AID at WKU
In the fall of 2007, five Hilltoppers with similar passions came together to form an organization on WKU’s campus to find real solutions to some of the biggest problems facing our world. Our first goal was to engage our campus in the ONE Campaign's Campus Challenge, a competition between over 1500 universities in which WKU came out on top. Over the course of the year we united the university as ONE to take on global poverty and in doing so we won the title as “Most Globally Aware Campus” in the nation. We also received special praise from the king of activism himself, Bono, for our efforts with ONE.
After our first year the bar was set pretty high but in the 2008-2009 academic year we kept the momentum up with legislative visits, rallies against poverty, international video conferences, fair trade trick or treating and scavenger hunts, hunger banquets, awareness tabling, and the list goes on... We even managed to persuade our university president to live on less than $2 for ONE day together with a mayoral candidate and 130 WKU Hilltoppers all to experience ONE day in solidarity with the more than 2 billion people in the world living on less than $2 a day. In the 2009-2010 academic year we will continue to push even harder to address the issues of sustainability and justice on our campus as we are aware of our impact on the world's poorest people through our coal powered university.
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