Wednesday, February 18
6:30pm-8:30pm
social hall, John XXIII Campus Center at Holy Trinity
Catholics on Campus and S.A.H.A.H. (Students against hunger and homelessness) are sponsoring a hunger banquet to raise awareness about global hunger and poverty. We live in a precarious world where so many people struggle to survive in the face of crushing poverty. Over 10 million people starve to death every year. More people die each year from hunger than they die from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. The world is in a global food crises with 1 billion people experiencing chronic hunger each day. In the United States, modern agri-business disconnects us from the source of our food, hurts family farmers, violates the human rights of farm workers, and exposes all of us to deadly diseases (ie. Peanut Corporation of America and the salmonella scare). What can you do?
The Hunger Banquet will surprise you but also encourage you to make a difference. There will be an interactive dinner that will illustrate the inequities in our global food system, speakers to give you knowledge and perspective about the crises, and action alerts about what you can do to fight hunger and poverty.
Contact Carol Plas at cplas@emich.edu for more information. To learn more about global poverty and hunger and ways you can help, check out the work of Oxfam America.
