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.

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