Enjoy Your Life Campaign
As some may, or may not, know I’ve recently moved from being the Vice President - Multi Media for the Freethought Association of Canada to being the president of it. It’s a long and twisted story about why I decided to do it, but with the new executive I really think we’ll make a little bit of a difference in the world while showing that secularists have it in them to be giving. The new campaign is more or less phase 2 of the Atheist Bus Campaign… read on to learn about it! 
The Enjoy Your Life Campaign
Show the world that you can have a heart, even without a soul
The charity that brought you the controversial and highly successful Canadian Atheist Bus Campaign is proud to announce its follow up project: the Enjoy Your Life Campaign! This project will take up where the Bus campaign left off, providing charitable funding and volunteer work to a number of highly worthwhile causes.
How many times have you heard the lament that freethinkers of all kinds cannot possibly be good without god? Now is your chance to prove once and for all that not only can we be moral people, but we can put this morality to work in ways that will better humankind. We at the Freethought Association of Canada understand the importance of helping to improve the lives of as many people as our hands can reach. Knowing that this life is all we have, emphasizes its importance and motivates us to extend our moral consideration to all who share our world.
The Freethought Association of Canada will be looking for donations from anyone interested in helping spread the word that atheists are able and willing to do good deeds. Our outlook is global, and includes such worthwhile causes as:
- Expanding the supply of condoms in Africa
- Helping children’s literacy in Canada
- Participating in the development of critical thinking curriculum for pre-university students
- Building an online community to connect and support freethinkers around the world
- Organizing blood drives and food banks
- Taking YOUR suggestions for what you think the Canadian Freethought Community should support!
Over the next few months, the Freethought Association of Canada will be conducting extensive research into charitable causes around the world, and by the end of Summer 2009 we will be ready to begin a campaign that will impact lives forever. If you would like to be a part of this once in a lifetime opportunity, we would love to hear from you. Donations can be made on our site (freethoughtassociation.ca), and if you’d like to volunteer your time or expertise, you can contact: info@freethoughtassociation.ca or phone (647) 822-5474.
The Enjoy Your Life Campaign - Show the world that you can have a heart, even without a soul.
This is most excellent! Have you guys heard of the One Match network?
“OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network is responsible for finding and matching volunteer donors for patients who require stem cell transplants. Fewer than 30 per cent of patients who need stem cell transplants find a compatible donor within their own families. The rest rely on those who have volunteered to donate stem cells to anyone in need.”
http://www.onematch.ca/
All you have to do is register on their website. It’s run by the Canadian Blood Services, so it could be something else that you guys could add to the list of things to promote.
“Participating in the development of critical thinking curriculum for pre-university students”
High schools definately should be the focus of such efforts. I would say that improving science materials should be the first priority. The long-term goal should be reforming science education in Canada.
I swear that I posted a comment… where did it go?
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Anyways, it was mostly about onematch.ca:
http://onematch.ca/
(nevermind, I’m just dumb >_>)
Go KT!
Will - that sounds awesome, we will definitely look into it.
Thanks!
-Emily
This sounds a bit weird. It’s like an anti-poverty campaign that says it plans to reduce poverty in rural Bangladesh, the slums of Nairobi, and Downtown Toronto.
Alon - Canada doesn’t have poverty? Social help can only extend to those countries who are worse off?
By the standards of Bangladesh and Kenya, no, Canada has no poverty. It has zero people living under $2 a day, 100% literacy, and approximately zero people who are chronically malnourished.
Well, just because Hilter and Tom Cruise are bigger assholes doesn’t mean you’re not an asshole.