Digital Portfolio 2: What Should We Do?

I believe that what we could do as a scriptures class that would be most helpful toward eliminating poverty in Africa is to spread the word and fund raise. We already have 400+ people that we could easily educate about poverty around the world. All it would take is a presentation at one of our school masses. As suggested by "The End of Poverty" article, at one of our masses we could give a multi-media presentation on poverty and the simple things we could do to help. For the sermon, we could use the Good Samaritan Parable and an explanation on it as learned in class. I know that when I go to church I pay more attention when someone other than the priest is giving a sermon because it is always refreshingly different. Then we could follow up the next week with a World Poverty Week, like what we do in October for breast cancer. I've noticed that breast cancer fundraising gets a lot of attention because it hits so close to home here in America, supposedly everyone at some point in their life will either be affected or know someone who is affected. By spreading the word about poverty and Jesus' teaching about helping those who are difficult to identify with, we can help many people.
I like Singer's advice on utilitarianism. By educating our school, the word will naturally spread and our fundraisers will be more successful. It will help more people than simply fundraising or appealing to politicians. Although, being juniors and seniors we will mostly be of voting age in the 2008 elections. It would also be a good idea not to forget what we have learned and keep it in mind when we are voting.