In Corvallis, Oregon a group of Global Citizen Corps students involved with their high school’s Human Rights Club had an idea to plan a dance in honor of World AIDS Day. They titled their dance the “Red Rave”, encouraging students to wear red to the event, and decided to send all the proceeds to Cascade AIDS Project (CAP), a local HIV/AIDS support and service organization.
Due to the school’s dance schedule, winter break, lack of support and a last minute location cancellation, the dance had to be postponed until January 30th. Despite all these complications, the group was still able to create an event that had a huge turnout of about 300 students from 2 high schools, raised $1,450 for CAP, and was a lot of fun. Not only did they raise money for CAP, but they gave students the opportunity to donate 1$ to support Mercy Corps’ Haiti efforts when they bought their tickets, raising a total of 150$ for Mercy Corps.
Liza, a GCC Leader, described the event:
“Everyone wore red to raise awareness about AIDS, and people got really into that and dressed really wildly. It was just a really great party, and no one wanted it to end. When we were cleaning up, the building employee told us that we would most likely be refunded the money it cost to rent the hall at the last minute ($350), since we were working for such a good cause!”
The group is now planning events for World Water Day on March 22nd, including ideas for a film viewing and garage sale.
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