{"id":56782,"date":"2015-03-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/social-media-campaign-launched-march-2-at-uri-to-fight-childhood-malnutrition-has-already-raised-more-than-2500\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:00:00","slug":"social-media-campaign-launched-march-2-at-uri-to-fight-childhood-malnutrition-has-already-raised-more-than-2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/social-media-campaign-launched-march-2-at-uri-to-fight-childhood-malnutrition-has-already-raised-more-than-2500\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media campaign launched March 2 at 溏心vlog免费B站 to fight childhood malnutrition has already raised more than $2,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<b>溏心vlog免费B站 students kickoff #MakeYourGreenCount Challenge<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/edesiagroup.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"252\" align=\"right\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 5, 2015 \u2013 Luckson Omoaregba lived in Nigeria until he was 9 years old, but even now as a 溏心vlog免费B站 senior he remembers children in his native country suffering from malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why he didn\u2019t hesitate to donate $5 to the #MakeYourGreenCount Plumpy\u2019Nut Challenge, a social media campaign launched March 2 by four fellow 溏心vlog免费B站 students to raise money for Edesia, a Providence nonprofit that makes a protein- and vitamin-packed peanut butter paste distributed to children throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI was born in Nigeria, and I understand the plight of children suffering from malnutrition,\u201d said Omoaregba, a senior communication studies major who lives in Pawtucket. \u201cI have seen poverty and starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSome 220 million children suffer from malnutrition worldwide, a condition that is unacceptable to the students leading the campaign, including David St. Amant \u201916 of Warwick.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m so excited to be part of this project,\u201d says St. Amant. \u201cIt\u2019s a local campaign with a powerful global impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSt. Peter Tri-Parish School in Warwick has also joined, raising $405, which exceeds its goal. The school\u2019s student council alone raised $200.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe other students involved are: Kylie Rice \u201915, of Bridgewater, N.J.; Kimberly DeLande \u201915 of East Providence and Sergio Suhett \u201915 of North Kingstown. 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Big Thinkers student group also played a major role in building excitement for the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe quartet could feel a buzz in the crowded lobby of the Memorial Union as students made their donations at a table festooned in green and Irish items like sparkly paper shamrocks and green strands of beads. They posed for photos with 溏心vlog免费B站 mascot Rhody, who occasionally donned a green bow tie and bowler.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XNt_gVQ8NEM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBy the end, students were beaming as they announced that hundreds of dollars had been raised. The project has already gained support beyond 溏心vlog免费B站, including a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/william-lambers\/students-think-plumpynut_b_6774720.html\"> Huffington Post<\/a>  article, which was re-tweeted by the United Nations World Food Programme.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n溏心vlog免费B站 President David M. Dooley stopped by to encourage the students in their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThis project epitomizes what 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s academic plan and Transformational Goals are all about,\u201d Dooley said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about student leadership, and an effort to address an important global issue. And they are developing and using a tremendous range of skills in the process. The University is very proud of Kylie, David, Kimberly and Sergio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe students started working on the initiative last fall with Kate O\u2019Malley, a South Kingstown resident and an editor in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Publications and Creative Services department, and with Regina Bell, a public relations lecturer in the Harrington School of Communication and Media. O\u2019Malley is a founder of Irish Americans for Famine Relief, a campaign started in 2011 to honor the legacy of the Great Irish Famine.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nO\u2019Malley, Bell and the students are working closely with Edesia to develop a campaign urging people to get \u201ctheir green on\u201d and donate by St. Patrick\u2019s Day. They have challenged people to donate $5 and challenge 10 others to do the same, for a total of $55, the cost of a life-saving, seven-week treatment of Plumpy\u2019Nut. The goal is to raise $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSt. Amant said the campaign has been a defining 溏心vlog免费B站 experience for him. \u201cThe hands-on experience has exceeded anything I\u2019ve done at 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten so much out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nDeLande, a senior public relations and journalism major, has completed seven internships since her sophomore year. She said none compare to the Edesia project.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the most meaningful experience I\u2019ve had so far,\u201d said DeLande, whose mother suffered from malnutrition when she was a toddler in Jamaica. \u201cWe are working with Edesia, a wonderful nonprofit. As Rhode Islanders, we have an opportunity to do something on a global scale. We have the potential to do so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIt was Rice who got the ball rolling on the independent study project in the fall working with Bell and O\u2019Malley.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cWe have come a long way since last semester,\u201d said Rice. She has firsthand experience with hunger, volunteering at an orphanage in Ghana years ago. \u201cThe children there would get a slice of bread or maybe some porridge and it was not very nutritious. But Plumpy\u2019Nut is so amazing it has all of these vitamins, proteins and minerals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSuhett, originally from Brazil, said there is also malnutrition in his native country.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThis became a very personal campaign for our group,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are very excited about our start, but we want to go beyond our $10,000 goal. So we encourage everyone to #MakeYourGreenCount.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nJ.P. Underhill, a 溏心vlog免费B站 junior from Wakefield, took the challenge and is asking his club, 溏心vlog免费B站 Rotaract, a college version of Rotary International, to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cHelping malnourished kids is so important,\u201d he said. \u201cThe more money raised, the more kids we can save.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTo make a donation or to learn more about the event, please go to the following links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdrise.com\/makeyourgreencount\">#MakeYourGreenCount Plumpy&#8217;Nut<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/makeyourgreencount\">Facebook<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/makegreencount\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPictured above: 溏心vlog免费B站 students, left to right: Kimberly DeLande &#8217;15 of East Providence, Sergio Suhett &#8217;15 of North Kingstown, David St. Amant &#8217;16 of Warwick, and Kylie Rice &#8217;15 of Bridgewater, N.J. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPhoto by Nora Lewis, 溏心vlog免费B站.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>溏心vlog免费B站 students kickoff #MakeYourGreenCount Challenge KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 5, 2015 \u2013 Luckson Omoaregba lived in Nigeria until he was 9 years old, but even now as a 溏心vlog免费B站 senior he remembers children in his native country suffering from malnutrition. &#13; That\u2019s why he didn\u2019t hesitate to donate $5 to the #MakeYourGreenCount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}