I.

Overview and Rationale

The general things that we hope to accomplish at Students
Against Child Abuse (SACA) non-profit are to spread awareness about
child abuse throughout the University of Utahs student body. Overall
we hope that this will help lead to the end of child abuse in Utah. We
are a new organization with need of many resources; our mission is to
get students involved to help spread awareness of child abuse
prevention across the world. There is no way a small organization like
ours would be able to end child abuse without the help of others.
Preventing child abuse is a very important cause. The only way to end
child abuse is to spread awareness.
II. Detailed Description of Existing Issue and why it
merits your project.
Child abuse is a very serious problem in todays society. There
are four different types of child abuse. The four types are: Mental,
physical, emotional, and neglect. There are a reported three million
child abuse incidents a year in the United States. These are only the
reported cases, imagine how many un reported cases there are. We
can assume that most cases of child abuse go unreported. Children can
either be too young to report the incident or in some cases too scared
to come forward. Some of the types of child abuse can be impossible to
see. Physical abuse is any non-accidental harming of someone under the age
of 18.Physical is the most prevalent type of child abuse and it is the
easiest to tell if a child has been physically abused. Physical abuse can
be very dangerous to the child and in some cases life threatening.
Emotional abuse is much harder to identify than Physical abuse.
Emotional abuse is any intentional damage to a childs emotional
development of self-worth. Neglect is the failure to give a child the
basic necessities. Sexual abuse is any sexual action done for the
sexual gratification of the adult. Child abuse is a very serious epidemic
in the world. Child abuse can have long lasting effects that can have
serious implications on society. Children who are abused are much
more likely to become violent members of society. Not only does child
abuse affect the children that are abused but if has a toll on society as
well.
III.

Detailed Description of Project

Our organization, Students Against Child Abuse (SACA) will raise

money and awareness for child abuse. Any money that we raise as an
organization will be donated to Child Abuse Utah. Who are in direct
partnership with the national organization Child Abuse America. As a
small new organization we will not be able to use the money as
effectively as Child Abuse America.

The way that SACA as an organization will raise money is through

a fundraising week that will take place in September. The SACA week
will contain three main events on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The
first event will be Thursday September 8th. The event will be called Trot
for Tots. This will be an annual 5k race to raise money and awareness
for our cause. In order to support this event there will be a $20
registration fee. This fee will include a t-shirt and a spot in the race. We
encourage people to talk to friends and families to get them to donate
as well. The next even will be Friday September 9th, this even will be a
booth at the Union. These booths see many students a day and this
way we will be able to reach a lot of the student body. Our booth will be
there all day and its primary purpose is to educate the students about
child abuse. We will hand out pamphlets, literature, and candy. We will
have a game that our group created called corn hole trivia. Behind our
booth we will have a pinwheel field as well as hand out blue ribbons so
students can show their support for SACA. The final and most
important day of our fundraising week will be Saturday, September
10th. This final event will be a Utah vs. BYU football game in which we
will hopefully raise the most amount of money for our cause. We will
partner with both the UTAH and BYU football programs to raise as
much money as we can. We will get both the crimson club and cougar
club to donate. Because our campaign is named SACA we will be using
sacks in the game for donors to pledge money. Every time Utah gets a
sack the University of Utah will donate a certain amount of money and
every time BYU gets a sack the University will donate a certain amount
of money. If there are no sacks in the game, whichever team raises
more money will win the SACA trophy. We will pas out pinwheels to the
student sections of the teams and have a moment of silence for the
victims of child abuse at some point during the game.
There are four people directly involved with SACA so far. These
people are Dalton, Sarah, Ashleigh, and myself. We are always looking
for more volunteers and contributors in hopes that we will grow into a
stable organization. Everyone who works on the campaign will be
volunteering, this is not a full time job for us. We estimate that our
costs will be around $1000 for the entire SACA week. This includes
materials, transportation, booths, games, candy and time spent with
the organization. We are certain that these costs would be easily
covered by local business and charitable citizens. Transportation would
not be a big issue because we all live near a trax station and can easily
access the University of Utah. Our project is easily accomplishable and
we have very high hopes for the fundraising week.
IV. Risk Analysis

An obvious setback that could happen during SACA week is that

there could be no sacks during the football game. If this happens to be
the case then whichever team donates more money during the game
would win the SACA trophy. Another obvious setback would be if no
students were to get involved at our union booth. If this happened we
would campaign in different ways by putting flyers up around the
University to help spread awareness.
If SACA does not succeed than we as a team have failed. The
project is very important to us and can potentially help thousands of
people. There will be no major consequences if our project fails, we
would only be out time and a small amount of money. We are a
connection to a much larger organization that has a much larger
outreach, if we were to fail no one would be hurt. The only thing that
can happen with SACA is positive.
V. Benefit Analysis:
If our project is as successful as we hope there are many positive
things that can happen. The benefits are endless, many children would
be helped and we would have done our job in helping spread
awareness about child abuse prevention. The emotional benefits are
immeasurable because there is no telling how many innocent children
we have helped. Our goal is not a monetary goal, but rather a mental
goal. If we can spread awareness we have done our job. Money is not
going to fix this terrible epidemic.
If SACA week is successful we would hope to start more chapters
on different campuses. The outreach is endless and the potential
benefit is immeasurable. The community is the one who benefits in this
scenario. The volunteers get what they want and the world is a safer
place because our organization was successful.
VI. Conclusions
Sadly child abuse is not going to be stopped in a day. The only
thing that we can do as a successful organization is spread awareness
so child abuse is limited around the world. Child abuse may never
disappear but it definitely can be limited. We hope to start more
chapters on different campuses around the nation and help stop child
abuse once and for all. Remember, it should hurt to be a child.
VII. References
Child Abuse Statistics. (n.d.). Retrieved December 11, 2015,
fromhttps://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse-statistics/

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations. (n.d.).

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http://www.un.org/en/universaldeclaration-human-rights/