Tuesday, March 22, 2011

getting youth to sign up as a member of a political party can be almost impossible

Good Morning ladies and gentleman, This is my second post and I'm going to talk about getting the youth to be interested with politics. It may sound impossible because I was the person who swear that I'm not involve myself with politics because I always thought politics is dirty and ugly, people would do anything to be on top, be it a murder. And here I am, working for a political party and getting people who happened to have the same thought back then.

So, me and my colleagues came up with a 1 month plan to get at least 20 young members to sign up for this political party and this plan is consists of 3 events that happens every weekend. and THANK GOD WE MANAGED TO GET 24 new members !!! so, we named our event waSUPP because basically waSUPP stands for W - we A- are SUPP - the political party, Sarawak United People's Party. and we thought that it's pretty catchy, fresh and acceptable for young adults . We even have our own waSUPP handshake, and we greet each other with the handshake. it's pretty fun you know!!
Okay, the first week, we held an event called Sunset Charity. First activity was the young adults get to play soccer beach and tug of war with the leaders and after that, we did a beach cleaning. We raised about RM 3.2 k for the PIBAKIS centre,to buy them toiletteries and that's our activity for the second week.





3 comments:

fiffiebrown said...
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fiffiebrown said...

hello Sarah. I have to say that was quite a fresh catchy tag for your campaign you guys came up with. Very creative... Like you said, getting the youth to sign up as members of a political party sounds almost impossible. Could you please highlight the common reasons why the youth would give to not want to sign up to become a political party member, the challenges you faced and how you strategized to counteract those challenges to be able to register those 24; which was above you targeted number...(good job on that).

AnnaBurchy said...

I'm doing work for an politician in Western Australia, and I've been replying to constituent letters. Basically, from writing these letters, we want to swing them to vote for the MP I work for. So I can sympathise with how hard it can be to win people over politcally!!

Loved the acronym you came up with!

I think it would be important in a situation like this to set up a system of continual evaluation/assessment, which entails the key points highlighted by the comment before mine.

Was impressed with your post and your use of photos - keep up the good work :)