A W ARENESS WEEK OCT 17-24, 2013 YOUR HAND FOR THE RAISE CHALLENGE 18 24 22 17 Dare to Share: Come celebrate Circles in Columbus’ one year anniversary at the Elizabeth Bradley Turner Center at CSU at 6pm and tell us about your experience with PAW. Metra Matters Challenge: Attempt to take the bus to work, the kids to daycare, or complete any task using public transportation. MARK YOUR CALENDAR... REGISTER AT WWW.ODCH.ORG Your Mission: Should you choose to accept one of the challenges, meet us at Open Door at 6pm for the kickoff event. Poverty Awareness Week (PAW) To celebrate our one year anniversary, Circles in Columbus is hosng Poverty Awareness Week (PAW). This week brings awareness to issues related to low-income families in our community. Throughout the week, community members will have an opportunity to parcipate in a variety of acvies that bring them face-to-face with the barriers so many impoverished people in our city experience on a daily basis. We invite you to take up the cause and commit to the challenge. For more informaon and to register for PAW, please visit us at www.odch.org. Join us throughout the week as we screen these gripping films illustrating society’s everyday struggle with poverty: The Line: Poverty in America is not what you think. The Line documents the stories of people across the country living at or below the poverty line. They have goals. They have children. They work hard. They are people like you and me. Across America, millions are struggling every day to make it above The Line. A Place at the Table: Fiſty million people in the U.S.—one in four children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. A Place at the Table shows us how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implicaons for our naon. American Winter: Presents an inmate snapshot of the state of the naon's economy as it is playing out in millions of American families, and highlights the human consequences of the decline of the middle class and the fracturing of the American Dream. For viewing mes and dates, please visit www.odch.org. Circles in Columbus is part of a naonal movement to end poverty. By intenonally building relaonships across social and economic class lines, we surround hardworking yet under-resourced families with the support needed to become economically self-sufficient. This high-impact strategy allows for a more holisc approach as emoonal, intellectual, and movaonal resources increase, as well. SNAP Challenge: What can you do with $4.50 per day? Join Mayor Teresa Tomlinson in this fascinang week-long food challenge that millions of Americans experience each day. 19 COPE Challenge: Join us at 9am for a real-life simu- lation of a month in the life of an impoverished family. Stick around for Bridges Out of Poverty training, immediately following.