Action Reflection

The Action I decided to take on behalf of my social justice project was making a poster that illustrated the ills of world hunger. I chose this action because I can recall as a junior and also as an underclassman at Serra, walking down the halls and seeing every spring the poster put up by Padres past displaying their social topic. I remember quite clearly that I would always (and still do) stop and examine the poster and read what it was saying. I was genuinely interested in the topics these seniors displayed in a creative way. I think that a poster would grab the most attention in my local community, because I knew that it would have grabbed my attention as a younger Padre
I felt I was successful in my poster, it displayed a rather shocking and attention grabbing image and statistic, and have been questioned about it by my peers more than once about it while they sat on my desk.
This action has made me think about the power of the written word—displayed correctly or “whispered in the right ear” it can be very powerful. Someone who sees this might not have a side of French fries with their lunch, and end up giving that extra money to a soup kitchen or to UNICEF. I think that small actions like this one, can have a snowball effect into greater action, these posters will not end world hunger, but if they can change just one person’s mind about this topic than the cost of putting the posters together, the paper and ink, will all be well spent.