Eagle Residents Stand Up for Poverty

Rembrandts Coffee House and The Landing Community Center Hosts ONE Campaign “STAND UP AGAINST POVERTY” Event
Eagle joins in a national day of action against global poverty

EAGLE, IDAHO— Rembrandts Coffee House and the Landing Community, Center will host a ONE Campaign “Stand Up Against Poverty” event on October 15, 2006, from 2:00-6:00 p.m. Across the country, Americans will stand up in their churches, on their campuses, and in their communities to ask our leaders to make poverty history. STAND UP is an exciting challenge to set an official Guinness World Record for the greatest number of people ever to STAND UP against poverty and in support of ONE’s Millennium Development Goals, dedicated to ending global poverty by 2015.

The Landing Community Center and Rembrandts Coffee House have organized the Idaho Chapter of the ONE Campaign - To Make Poverty History. Rembrandts will provide free drip coffee and snacks to participants in this historic event. Join us to learn more about ONE, an organization committed to alleviating global poverty by allocating an additional one percent of the U.S. budget towards basic needs like healthcare, education, clean water and food, transforming the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries. From 3:00-5:00 p.m., there will be a free screening showing of the documentary Invisible Children with a discussion period afterwards. The event is open to the public, and we encourage attendees to sign up for the “Day of Action” by visiting www.one.org and clicking on the “Day of Action Link.” You can also visit www.the-landing.org for more information.

The Landing Community Center is a 501C3, non-profit faith-based foundation. The mission of The Landing Community Center is to come along side of persons of all ages, regardless of ethnicity, religious, or economic diversity, to enrich the quality of the physical, mental, spiritual and social life of each individual and family in our community.

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