On Monday, OUSA is launching its first Food for Thought Campaign, aimed at raising awareness of the deficiencies of the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP). Specifically, the campaign is targeting the OSAP needs assessment, which is a formula that is used to calculate how much a student needs to live on during a school year. It calculates its numbers based on what it believes to be the necessities, and for food, the program assesses that students only need $7.50 a day, or $2.50 a meal. Since we believe that $7.50 is an inadequate amount to properly sustain an individual in a healthy and meaningful way, we thought we would start an experiment and see if it was possible. We found 5 students at 4 of our institutions to attempt the experiment over the next three weeks. They will begin on Monday and end on Friday, March 26th. They will be blogging on the OUSA website daily, and be posting video blogs every few days.
They have created intro videos about themselves, and I have posted them below. Visit www.ousa.ca/foodforthought/ for more information about the campaign and the participants.
Rachel's Intro Video
Sarah's Intro Video
