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Union College Students to Host "Hunger Banquet"

Union College students will host a Hunger Banquet on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 5 p.m. in the student center on campus.

The event is part of Oxfam America’s annual Fast for a World Harvest, an anti-hunger campaign. Guests will have a chance to experience a meal as a low-income, middle-income or upper-income global citizen.

The Hunger Banquet brings home to guests the experience of living with poverty that is shared by millions in the US and overseas.

Union’s Hunger Banquet is only one of thousands that will take place across the country. According to Oxfam America, tens of thousands of people take part in the Fast for a World Harvest every year at churches, schools, colleges and community groups.

“At any given moment, there are 854 million people in the world suffering from hunger, and every day 30,000 children under the age of five die of preventable causes, including malnutrition,” says Eden Ellison, a Union student who will help organize Wednesday’s banquet. “We’re doing our part to try to change the reality faced by poor people here and across the world.”

The public is invited to attend the Hunger Banquet. For more information, call Union at 606-546-1230.

November 17, 2008

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