TEENS
FAST TO FIGHT HUNGER
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Multiple
natural disasters around the globe have dominated news headlines for the
past year. Yet behind the scenes and out of the headlines, hunger and
preventable disease have continued to claim the lives of the world's children
at a pace of 29,000 a day. The good news is that thousands of American
teens are responding to this ongoing crisis, through World Vision's 30
Hour Famine.
The Stony
Brook School HEART council, the schoool's community service committee,
recently organized participation of the School community in this event.
One hundred twenty Stony Brook School students participated with teens
nationwide in World Vision's 17th annual 30 Hour Famine by forsaking food
for 30 hours to get a taste of what the world's poorest children and families
face on a daily basis. During this time they engage in different activities,
from dodgeball to community service projects, such as making cards for
Make A Child Smile. The students ended their fast with a dinner of food
donated by parents and faculty.
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Prior
to the event weekend, teens raise funds by explaining that $30 a month - just
$1 a day - will feed and care for a child. This year, The Stony Brook School
raised over $9000 which will feed 25 children for a year.
Funds
raised by 30 Hour Famine participants help feed and care for children in poverty-afflicted
countries around the globe, such as Malawi, Swaziland, North Korea, and here
in the United States. Funds from the 30 Hour Famine contribute to World Vision's
response in areas where famine, conflict, and other crises make children vulnerable
to hunger and preventable disease.
"The
30 Hour Famine has a lasting impact, not just to the children receiving food,
care, and education, but to Famine participants who view their own potential
to affect change in their world very differently afterward," said Debbie Diederich,
national director of the World Vision 30 Hour Famine.
World
Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping
children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling
the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves the World's poor regardless
of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. For more information, visit
www.worldvision.org.
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