Campus Hunger Banquets Work to Simulate Real Life

November 7th, 2007 at 11:21 am

A few weeks ago, I helped one of my professors put on a “Hunger Banquet” in a GenEd class to demonstrate the disparities in food wealth globally. We divided the “world” (the class) – who had all previously received a country to study for the semester – into four tiers. When the first group got called (countries like the US, the UK, and Canada), they got a piece of pizza, a brownie, and a cup of soda. (This was the smallest of the four groups.) The 2nd group got rice and meat sauce and a cup of punch. The 3rd group got rolls with peanut butter and “dirty water” (watered-down tea). The 4th group got a message that today was the day of the week where they could not afford to eat.

While the students were great sports and may have laughed at the misfortune, this Hunger Banquet was a very real representation of the conditions in the world. There are millions of people in the world that are so poor that they cannot afford to eat more a few times a week – quite different than the standard three meals a day most Americans enjoy.

Hunger Banquets are a great way to spread awareness of the global problems with hunger. Many of the students who had countries like Malawi or Haiti had written about the geography of their countries, but not about the people. It was great to see how eye-opening it was for so many of them! Should your school want to put on something, similar, you can take a look at Oxfam’s Hunger Banquet site at http://www.hungerbanquet.org/ to get some ideas!

 

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    The Hunger Banquet is an eye-opening awareness piece. OxFam is a great ONE partner, and it’s great that you took their idea and ran with it!

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