Matthew 14 discusses Jesus feeding 5,000 people from just five loaves of bread and two fish. The document then discusses the historical use of bread as a staple food and how a loaf of bread can have different values to people of various social classes, from little meaning to being a matter of life or death. It proposes a "Pay it Forward Bread Project" on Facebook where loaves of bread with challenge cards attached would be anonymously given to people, encouraging them to complete the challenge and continue paying it forward to spread goodwill.
3. BREAD, GRAIN, WHEAT: SAME SOURCE
The bread has The bread is the
been used quickest and
since biblical cheapest way
times like a of stopping
source to starvation.
supply an
immediate
necessity of
the human
race.
4. REWARDS AND COSTS OF A LOAF OF BREAD
The social Exchange Theory, an economic model of human behavior used
to explain how people arrive at decisions, posits that people seek the
greatest amount of reward with the least amount of cost. This theory
exemplifies how the human race has integrated
to its basic diet; the costs has been minimal and the
rewards beyond imagination.
Using this particular approach, I decide to reframe a loaf of bread in a very
refreshing approach.
5. WHAT IS THE REAL VALUE OF A LOAF OF
BREAD?
For a wealthy person like Mitt Romney (Go Obama) a loaf of bread might
mean nothing.
For an average person like me living in the United States, it means an
addition to my weekly grocery shopping list.
For a low income person, it might be the difference between live or death.
A loaf of bread averages in the local supermarket between $2.50- $4.50.
Many of us don’t appreciate the little economical value of this items.
Besides its economical value, I embrace myself in this project with the
idea to move a loaf of bread through the different social classes in our
current society. I wanted to see how so little can produce so much. I
want to be able to feed 5000 in one simple idea. This is the bread
Facebook project.
7. BASICS CONCEPTS OF THE PROJECT:
The idea of the Step number
project is very one: We create
simple : to feed a Facebook
and help group/fan page
people at the where we
same time. promote the
How do we project.
accomplish
this?
8. NUMBER TWO: PAY FORWARD.
We delivered a This loaf of bread
bread of loaf to is attached with
neighbors, a small card.
friends, family, Nobody knows
relatives, what the card
coworkers, contains until
strangers, he/she goes
classmates, home and
anyone! opens it.
9. WHAT IS IT INSIDE THE CARD?
E V E R Y S I N G L E C A R D H A S A
G O A L O R T A S K T H E
I N D I V I D U A L M U S T
A C C O M P L I S H .
One of my friends’ Another card might
card said, “share say, “make a
this loaf of bread bread cake using
with you mom. this loaf and
Call her and invite bread and give it
her for a snack. to the first person
Reconnect with you see today.”
her.’
10.
11. THE LEVELS WE ARE WORKING:
We strongly believe We would like to use
we can encourage technology to track
people to be more the progress, to
socially emphatic document how the
with just a simple world can be a
loaf of bread. We better place with a
want people to loaf of bread and
communicate not actions. We
only with words, encourage people
but with actions. to pay it forward
continuing the
snowball effect that
the Facebook
project has started.