I am going hungry. I had not gone hungry for a whole day in my entire adult life. But this time I’m going hungry for 30 hours. But I am not doing it alone. I am doing it with others to celebrate Hunger – as a key to unlock more windows in our hearts.
Am I concerned? What do you think? Always find hunger pangs difficult to tolerate. That growling in the stomach, the growing emptiness, the sapping of energy from the limbs. I never wait for it to develop that far, I filled it with food or snacks as temporary
measure. I love food too much to go hungry. When I tried to recruit more friends to join us, the typical responds are “You crazy? Paying to suffer?!” or for the more generous ones “Take my money but please don’t asked me to go”. Look like hunger drives fear into a lot of people. That is only natural, I guess.From 12 noon of September 15 (this Saturday) to 6.00 p.m. of September 16, eight thousand kind souls will converge onto Stadium Putra in Bukit Jalil Kuala Lumpur. They are there to participate in World Vision’s 30-Hour Famine 2007. This is the 10th year “Famine” will be held in Malaysia and coincides with the 10th Anniversary of World Vision Malaysia. It will be a bilingual event held simultaneously in English and Mandarin.
Each of the participants will donate a minimum of RM150.00 (RM100.00 for students and senior citizens). The beneficiaries of this fund-raising are the World Vision Vietnam Ba Thuoc Area Development Project, World Vision Hope Fund, World Vision Malaysia Development Fund, Beautiful Gate Foundation for the Disabled and Persatuan Kristian Shuangfu. Malaysia is not the only country organizing such event. It was first started by World Vision Canada as far back as 1971 and has spread to World Vision offices all over the world. Malaysia will held 2 such events this year with the East Malaysia event to be held in Miri on the 6 and 7 October. To learn more, please 
visit World Vision for more details. And to get some personal insights into behind the screen work done by volunteers, please check out http://30hourfaminemalaysia.wordpress.com/
visit World Vision for more details. And to get some personal insights into behind the screen work done by volunteers, please check out http://30hourfaminemalaysia.wordpress.com/During the 30-Hour Famine Camp, participants will be acquainted with the world-wide humanitarian work of World Vision. The program conducted will include mini-talks, video presentation, simulation games as well as concerts. All sounds interesting but the predominant thing in my mind is still – how will I cope with hunger?
Tune in next week to find out how this cowardly blogger cope with one of his greatest phobia.
p.s. If there are any readers going for the camp and would like to meet up, please send me an email with your name and phone number through my email listed at the top of my blog and we shall try to establish contact. See ya there!
(All photos are from World Vision )
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This comment is made by Starzz in Huzit.com in response to the Hunger quotations.
Hunger Facts: International
I hear you... and I'd like to share with your readers some information on World Hunger. Hopefully, with some education we can make difference.
World Hunger and Poverty: How They Fit Together
* 854 million people across the world are hungry, up from 852 million a year ago.
* Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.
* In essence, hunger is the most extreme form of poverty, where individuals or families cannot afford to meet their most basic need for food.
* Hunger manifests itself in many ways other than starvation and famine. Most poor people who battle hunger deal with chronic undernourishment and vitamin or mineral deficiencies, which result in stunted growth, weakness and heightened susceptibility to illness.
* Countries in which a large portion of the population battles hunger daily are usually poor and often lack the social safety nets we enjoy, such as soup kitchens, food stamps, and job training programs. When a family that lives in a poor country cannot grow enough food or earn enough money to buy food, there is nowhere to turn for help.
For more information on World Hunger: www.bread.org
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