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Solidarity Rides
Brake the Cycle Education Program
- Introduction of Brake the Cycle goals and presenters.
Circulate a sign in sheet with spaces for name, address, phone number and e-mail address. Presenters announce that the education program will be 53 minutes long.
- Prayer and song
- Think About It: Wheel of Misfortune
- Two teams of two people invited to come up and spin the Wheel of Misfortune – i.e., a bicycle wheel with statements in between the spokes.
- Each team gets three spins to try to get out of poverty. They will not be able to do so, though, because whatever statement the wheel stops on is an example of a barrier that keeps people trapped in poverty in the USA. (Most, if not all, of these statements will come from CCHD funded groups.)
- Presentation:
Hard hitting facts on poverty in the USA and some of the statements in the Wheel of Misfortune. A poverty packet will be provided connecting some of these statements with Catholic Social Teaching. Presenters will have a flip chart or PowerPoint presentation with cool charts of the myths and facts about poverty in the USA.
- Talk About It:
In pairs, participants will reflect on what this means to them. They will be given questions for reflection, perhaps questions from the CCHD booklet, Principles, Prophecy and a Pastoral Response.
- Take Action: Brake the Cycle
- A few individuals (kids included) invited to come up and pull the bicycle brake to stop the spinning wheel.
- The bicycle wheel will be on the flip side so that instead of the Wheel of Misfortune there will be Brake the Cycle.
- Wherever the wheel stops after each spin, there will be an example of a how a CCHD funded group is breaking the cycle of poverty.
- Participants given a Pledge Card and asked to take some action over the next year to help break the cycle of poverty in the USA.
- Presenters announce that we are at 50 minutes and, therefore, the presentation is almost over. They state that the presentation was set to last 53 minutes because (showing the statistic on the Brake the Cycle Map/triptik), “Every 53 minutes in the United States, a child dies of causes related to poverty.”
- All are asked to read the Pledge and then sign a Brake the Cycle banner signifying that they have taken a Pledge to Take Action.
- Close with a song such as Who Will Speak as people are signing the banner.
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