If you are a compassionate individual who cares about animal welfare issues, the Vegetarian Society (Singapore) (VSS) would like to invite you to volunteer in the inaugural “Adopt a Uni” Day! Be part of this movement to raise awareness about issues surrounding where our food comes from!

Event: “Adopt a Uni” Day

Date: 21 March 2012 (Wednesday)

Time: You can volunteer as much of your time as you want – be it half an hour, 1 hour, or 3 hours – on this special day.

Venue: Any of the local universities

Who can volunteer: Anybody can volunteer, whether you are a student or teaching at the school. Both vegetarians and non-vegetarians can join, as the focus is on animal cruelty in farming practices.

Registration:  Please register by 16 March 2012 by emailing ashley@vss.sg with the Subject: ‘ Adopt a Uni Registration ‘ and the following information:

1. Name:
2. University you would like to leaflet for:
3. Are you a student in that university?: Yes/No
4. Are you vegetarian or vegan? :Yes/No
5. Estimated duration you can leaflet for: (e.g. 1 hour)
6. Can you attend the briefing at 2pm on Saturday, 17 March?: Yes/No

Upon receiving your email sign-up, VSS will then send you a confirmation email to confirm your participation in Adopt a Uni Day.

*Briefing for registered participants:  2pm, 17 March 2012 (Saturday)

Concerns about leafleting to strangers will be addressed. You will be allocated your pamphlets, and VSS will tell you about the general leafleting strategy (e.g. when and where to leaflet) and  leafleting tips (e.g. what to say, good responses to questions), as well as answer any questions you might have. You can also network with like-minded individuals. Food is provided.

Event Details:

‘Adopt a Uni’ day is an event in which volunteers hand out pamphlets to students in universities throughout Singapore to raise awareness about issues surrounding where our food comes from. The pamphlet you will be giving out will be a variant of this: http://www.veganoutreach.org/cc.pdf.

Pamphleting is a simple yet extremely effective outreach activity – By investing just some of your time on 21 March, you can help to educate and inform many students about factory farms, slaughterhouses and animal agriculture and therefore potentially transform their lives. As Erik Marcus (publisher of Vegan.com) wrote in The Ultimate Vegan Guide, “[a]t a busy campus, it’s easy to pass out a couple hundred booklets an hour. That’s 200 people, for each hour invested, who would not receive this information if it were not for you. The results of this outreach effort are inspiring – astonishing, even… Nothing feels better than coming home after a couple of hours spent leafletting, knowing that you’ve just gotten hundreds of people to think about eating more compassionately.”