Sam Tucker is the Australia & New Zealand Outreach Coordinator for Vegan Outreach, a nonprofit animal rights group that hands out leaflets promoting veganism at university campuses. He is about to start a three month tour and is looking for volunteers to help out.
His leafleting tour includes universities in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Geelong, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Newcastle, Sunshine Coast, Sydney and Wollongong in Australia and Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington in New Zealand.
Vegan Outreach is a standout organisation according to Animal Charity Evaluators. Vegan Outreach coordinators hand out hard-hitting informational booklets to millions of people each year in several countries around the world. Leafleting is one of the most effective ways to move people away from eating animals. It's estimated that 1 in 50 people who get a leaflet will go vegan or vegetarian or drastically reduce their consumption of animal products. Considering the average meat eater will consume 7,000 animals over their lifetime, and that hundreds of leaflets can be handed out in just an hour or two, just a couple of hours of activism could save thousands of animals from being born into a factory farm and killed in a slaughterhouse.
Watch this video to find out more about Vegan Outreach and how leafleting works.
Sam says "Virtually every single day I'm leafleting, people will come back and tell me they're going vegan or vegetarian after receiving a booklet. Leafleting works, it's effective and it's easy. We usually leaflet from 8am until 4pm, although you don't have to stay the whole time, even an hour or two is enough time to hand out a lot of leaflets."
During Sam's last tour, just under 50,000 leaflets were handed out across Australia and New Zealand and the greatest number of leaflets handed out in one day was 3,250. Can you help him beat that record this time?
If you are keen to help out, please email Sam at samt@veganoutreach.org for the details.
Here is the schedule for the 2016 Vegan Outreach tour:
July 2016
- 20 Deakin University - Burwood Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 21 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Bundoora Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 22 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - City Centre Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 25 Monash University - Clayton Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 26 University of Melbourne - Parkville Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 28 Monash University - Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 29 La Trobe University - Bundoora Campus, Melbourne, VIC
August 2016
- 01 University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
- 02 Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, NZ
- 03 Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, NZ
- 04 University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ
- 05 University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ
- 08 Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ
- 09 Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ
- 11 University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
- 16 Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
- 17 Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
- 18 Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW
- 19 University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW
- 22 University of New South Wales - Kensington Campus, Sydney, NSW
- 23 Sydney Central Railway Station, Sydney, NSW
- 25 University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW
- 26 Sydney Central Railway Station, Sydney, NSW
- 29 Queensland University of Technology - Gardens Point, Brisbane, QLD
- 30 University of Queensland - St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, QLD
- 31 TAFE Southbank, Brisbane, QLD
September 2016
- 01 Queensland University of Technology - Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD
- 02 Queensland University of Technology - Gardens Point, Brisbane, QLD
- 05 University of the Sunshine Coast - Sippy Downs Campus, Sunshine Coast, QLD
- 06 TAFE Southbank, Brisbane, QLD
- 07 Griffith University - Nathan Campus, Brisbane, QLD
- 08 University of Queensland - St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, QLD
- 09 Griffith University - Gold Coast Campus, Gold Coast, QLD
- 12 University of Sydney - Camperdown Campus, Sydney, NSW
- 13 University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW
- 14 Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW
- 15 University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW
- 16 University of New South Wales - Kensington Campus, Sydney, NSW
- 19 University of Western Sydney - Paramatta Campus, Sydney, NSW
- 20 University of Sydney - Camperdown Campus, Sydney, NSW
- 21 University of Western Sydney - Bankstown Campus, Sydney, NSW
- 22 University of New South Wale - Kensington Campus, Sydney, NSW
- 23 University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW
- 27 Swinburne University of Technology - Hawthorn Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 28 Deakin University - Waurn Ponds Campus, Geelong, VIC
- 29 Deakin University - Burwood Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 30 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - City Centre Campus, Melbourne, VIC
October 2016
- 03 La Trobe University - Bundoora Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 04 Monash University - Clayton Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 05 Monash University - Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 06 Swinburne University of Technology - Hawthorn Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 07 University of Melbourne - Parkville Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 10 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - City Centre Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 11 Monash University - Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 12 University of Melbourne - Parkville Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 13 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - City Centre Campus, Melbourne, VIC
- 14 Monash University - Clayton Campus
- 17 University of South Australia - City East Campus, Adelaide, SA
- 18 Flinders University - Bedford Park Campus, Adelaide, SA
- 19 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA
- 20 TAFE Adelaide City Centre, Adelaide, SA
- 21 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA
- 25 Swinburne University of Technology - Hawthorn Campus, Melbourne, VIC
To find out how to help, please email Sam at samt@veganoutreach.org.
