Wednesday October 17
STAND UP, SPEAK OUT is an exciting and innovative challenge to break last year's official Guinness World Record for the most number of people ever to STAND UP for a cause.
- Bread for the World is calling on people of faith and others to join our partners in similar campaigns around the world -- from both wealthy and low-income countries -- to STAND UP and SPEAK OUT against global poverty.
- To participate, get a group to literally STAND UP against poverty, and count how many people are standing.
- We have just 24 hours to set this record. Every person counts!
STAND UP, SPEAK OUT will raise awareness of global poverty and the Millennium Development Goals to address extreme poverty, hunger and disease. STAND UP will publicly demonstrate the growing global support for the achievement of these goals.
STAND UP, SPEAK OUT coincides with the International Day of Poverty Eradication (October 17), as well as World Food Day (October 16) and the White Band Day of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (October 17).
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Watch the Stand Up video by clicking on the image below:
Click here for a downloadable version of this video.
For purposes of the Guinness Book of Records, this action will take place between Tuesday, Oct. 16, 9PM, GMT and Wednesday, Oct. 17, 9PM GMT. In the United States, this translates to Oct. 16, 5PM EDT and Oct. 17, 5PM EDT.
