#OrangeDay is today! Support the @UGM

photo credit: Muffet

I have always been a big supporter of local charities, and I’m always thrilled that my good friends are too. While I’m slightly late to writing about the Union Gospel Mission‘s Orange Day campaign, I noticed that my friends Rebecca and Gus have already posted some information about it. As a side note, Rebecca has Blogathoned 2 years in a row for the Union Gospel Mission, and I know that John Chow donates a sizable chunk of money to their activities too.

Kevan, Leah and the UGM Crew sent me some information about Orange Day:

Orange Day started because we’ve always given out oranges at our annual Easter dinner. Yeah, we’d serve over 3,000 scrumptious ham dinners to our hungry, hurting, homeless guests, and at the end of it, everybody gets an orange. It’s like saying: take hope home with you. You can start over. You can get off the street. You can reconnect with your family. You can peel back your addictions and discover a fresh life awaiting through recovery. We have programs that can help you achieve all of these things.

The Orange Day Campaign is about experiencing all the free fun our city has to offer, and donating whatever you would have spent on a day/night out to UGM to help make the lives of people living in need in our city better.

Here’s a breakdown:

Go out and have fun (- don’t spend any $) + share your experience online (+ donate what you would’ve spent to UGM) = Help transform our city into a fun place for everyone!

You can follow along on Twitter (#OrangeDay). This is such a wonderful initiative, I thought I couldn’t let it pass unnoticed.

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