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Students bug out for the R.O.C.K.
Group
The R.O.C.K. Group is the community’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. The group is a collaboration of agencies, organizations, businesses and individuals who have been providing services to children and families in Chatham County for decades. The group’s purpose is to lead, support and coordinate citizens and professionals in an effort to end child abuse in Chatham County through volunteer, community-based prevention programs and increased public awareness. The R.O.C.K. Group is a professional affiliate of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia. The campaign for which the students created the bugs is called “We’re Bugged About Child Abuse and We’re Gonna Bug YOU!” The campaign will run for 10 days beginning with a press conference kickoff Feb. 9, 2004. The bugs will be placed in conspicuous places in high visibility and high traffic businesses by a team of volunteers called “The Exterminators.” For the business to get the bug off their property they will be asked to pay an “extermination fee,” which is a donation to The R.O.C.K. Group. As a bonus for paying the extermination fee, business owners can then “bug” anyone they choose and send the bug on its way with the exterminator to the location of their choice. The R.O.C.K. Group will accept any size donation as the extermination fee and educational materials about child abuse prevention will accompany the bugs around town. “Our intention is to have the ‘exterminators’ dressed in some strange get-ups (T-shirts, gas masks, giant fly swatters, etc.) to add to the fun,” said Colette Balder, executive director of the R.O.C.K. Group. All money raised will support prevention programming in Savannah to protect children from abuse. |
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