Studentsclicktofightpoverty

ANNMARIE CHACKO STAFF WRITER Ac729@CABRINI.EDU

For the past month, students have been visiting the website www.povertyfighters.com and clicking under Cabrini's name to raise money for the Oxfam Collegiate Click Campaign. The fight against pover• ty can be won by just a click of the mouse, according to the director of applied social teaching, Dr. Mary Laver.

Harris, an assistant professo~ of business administration and the adviser to the finance club.

"Its main goal is to raise money to support micro-lending for underdeveloped countries," actually give any money. They just click twice a day until March 31, and every time they click, 25 cents will be donated by the .sponsors.

Claudia Sciandra, a senior accounting and finance major, said.

"I think that it's a good idea because some people aren't willing to give even 25 cents a day, even though that's hardly anything," Evelys Paulino, a sophomore accounting major, said.

This campaign is a national competition sponsored by Oxfam America. Students and alumni of different colleges and uni-

For the past few years, Cabrini 's branch of the click campaign has been organized by Dr. Mary

With the money that is raised, companies such as the Calvert Foundation and many others will take part in helping small businesses in third-world countries to develop and flounsh, rather than give the traditional hand-outs. Each donation goes towards self. employment loans to enable people who want to work to open shops using their talents and work for a living.

When participating in this campaign, the students do not and letters were sent to Cabrini professors as ways of informing students of the campaign and its cause.

All that is required is the time it takes to click that mouse and nothing else. Friends and family are welcome to visit the website and click under Cabrini's name as well.

Cabrini has raised $147.75 as of the printing date. The finance club urges students to take part in this campaign. Signs have been posted next to computers all around campus, emails have been sent through Cabrini One, versities across the country are working on behalf of their school to come up with the most amounts of donations by clicking the site's front page every day. This year, the college that manages to raise the most money wins a $1,000 reward and additional prizes. The competition runs from Feb. 13 to March 31, 2006.

"This is fighting against poverty by raising money in a whole new way," Laver said.

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