Day of Dignity Community Event

Hi again,

This is actually a post on behalf of Andy as well as myself, so you all dont think im blowing up the blog! On Sunday we went to the Day of Dignity in Atlanta and passed out information on the beehive and Atlanta Healthcare for you. I shot this video of Andy.

Anyway, we had a good time. Here is the official report from the event:

Day of Dignity September 6, 2009 Community Outreach Synopsis

About the Event: Day of Dignity is an annual event sponsored by Islamic Relief which provides health screenings, free clothes, hot lunch, canned goods, personal care bags to homeless and low income people. The event was staffed by 200 volunteers from the service community, pharmacy students from Georgia State, physicians, and service agencies. These were the target of our outreach efforts, although some homeless thought they would go to a library or a service center computer and check out the website. http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/09/19/atlanta_muslim_homeless.html?cxntlid=inform_artr

Look for video updates on the event in the next couple of days here: http://www.dayofdignity.com/

OE Representatives: Ruqiyyah Nu’Man, Andy Santamaria

Display: We set up a table with the beehive banner, hand cards, Atlanta Healthcare for you cards, volunteer sign up form, Atlanta Digital Connectors one pagers and the DC brochures. We also set up a Beehive powerpoint on a laptop. We gave a stack of 50 “I got my diabetes under control” cards to the Diabetes screening station to give out with their screenings. We did not get any back.

Outcomes: We handed out over 100 beehive hand cards with a personal synopsis of the website, and over 75 Atlanta Healthcare for you cards (there was no blind hand outs, everyone was a personal introduction to the website). We signed up 15 potential volunteers and discussed Digital Connection partnerships with a representative from Stand Up For Kids (a youth homelessness prevention nonprofit with a computer lab), and a representative from another youth serving organization based out of the 14^th St. Masjid. Additionally, we talked to an environmental health inspector from Dekalb county and a nutritionist both interested in volunteering for health initiatives, a CPA interested in volunteering at tax time, and a physician from the Pakistani Physicians Network interested in the use of 247townhall for tolerance education. We also created two short flip videos about the event.