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Squeeze The Day!

Orange Day is back for 2010, kids …and Union Gospel Mission needs your help!

Via UGM:

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 Union Gospel Mission has always given out oranges at their annual Easter dinner. They’d  serve over 3,000 scrumptious ham dinners to  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 get off the street. You can reconnect with your family. You can peel back your addictions and discover a fresh life awaiting through recovery. We have programs that can help you achieve all of these things.

The Orange Day Campaign is about experiencing all the free fun our city has to offer, and donating whatever you would have spent on a day/night out to UGM to help make the lives of people living in need in our city better.

Here’s the deal:

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: giving people oranges, dinners, addictions counselling, job training, housing, and partnering with them to build new lives.

The Orange Day Campaign starts March 27. Please help make this year’s campaign another successful one.

View photos from last year’s amazing Orange Day right here.

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