Engineering Now .: Volume 2 - Edition 5 .: November 23, 2005

Smashing poverty with pumpkins


(photo: introductory image for the site)
Samir Raza, an EWB Western member, spray painted the words "Poverty" on the 750-pund pumpkin before it was dropped from 100-feet.

A 750-pound pumpkin, with the words "Poverty" spray painted on it, was dropped from 100-feet Tuesday, November 15 to symbolize what EWB Western would like to see happen to poverty one day.

The group used the Pumpkin Drop as a fundraising initiative to help send EWB Western volunteers overseas.

"Every time we collected $10 from the crowd we would lift the pumpkin 1 foot in the air," explained Luke Brown, EWB Western member and Pumpkin Drop coordinator. "Our goal was to raise $1,000 and we raised almost that much."

Click here to read Ian Gillespie's column in the London Free Press...

Click here to view more pictures and video...

(photo: introductory image for the site)

Also from this web page:

Contact

.: Allison Stevenson
Spencer Engineering Building, Room 2074
Telephone: (519) 850-2917 Fax: (519) 661-3808
contactweATeng.uwo.ca