Oxfam’s Fast for a World Harvest
For some, banquet means lots of food. But for many, the only meal served is hunger. Feast or famine - it's the luck of the draw.
As you give thanks this holiday season, share the idea of an Oxfam Hunger Banquet with your family and friends. Visit Oxfam’s Fast for a World Harvest site.
Today, the Thursday before Thanksgiving, thousands of Americans are educating their friends and family about the more than 850 million people who routinely go to sleep hungry.
Share this simple idea with your family.
If 20 people sit down at your table, representing the world’s population:
3 would be served a gourmet, multi-course meal, while sitting at decorated table and a cushioned chair.
5 would eat rice and beans with a fork and sit on a simple cushion
12 would wait in line to receive a small portion of rice that they would eat with their hands while sitting on the floor.
The true power of an Oxfam Hunger Banquet is that as you eat your meal, unlike the real world, you see what’s on everyone else’s plate.
SourceFcuk that was depressing
2 comments:
HiJulie! I work with the ONE Campaign and I just came across your blog, and I wanted to say thanks for the post regarding ONE and the famine banquet. I also wanted to see if it might be possible for ONE to add your blog to our list of supporters? We're currently in the process of updating and restructuring our blog page,in an effort to build up the poverty/AIDS blogoshpere, and we would love to add yours to our list. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you might have, at: meagan@data.org. Thanks again for your support, and I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Meagan McManus
The ONE Campaign
meagan@data.org
I came here via the link on the ONE page; glad I did, thanks.
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