Hunger Banquet
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Posted by Web Team, November 01, 2007
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Today, thousands of people in Massachusetts (and millions across the U.S.) experience hunger because they cannot afford adequate food. Local families are struggling even more this year to put food on the table because of skyrocketing heating bills and the high cost of living. In fact, many low-income families and individuals on fixed incomes have to decide between paying rent, getting medical care, or buying food.
In a recently conducted study, Project Bread found that hunger has increased from 8% three years ago to 18%, driven by poverty and the high cost of living in Massachusetts. Bottom line: hunger has more than doubled in Massachusetts’s low-income communities. (http://www.projectbread.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home_page)
Every day, 30,000 children under the age of 5 die, mostly from preventable causes, including malnutrition.
On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, join the Simmons Community for HUNGER BANQUET, an interactive banquet event to raise awareness about hunger and poverty locally and around the world. You will walk away with a better understanding of the unfortunate struggles that many people must face daily.
Professor Gary Bailey will be facilitating the event, and Ryan Lee from Project Bread will be our keynote speaker.
HUNGER BANQUET
NOVEMBER 6, 2007 at 5PM
KOTZEN ROOM
RSVP by November 2, 2007 to stephanie.lai@simmons.edu or at the Box Office (up the ramp from the Bookstore).
Sponsored by the Office of Student Leadership and Activities in conjunction with Amnesty International, Campus Activities Board, and Rooted in Love Christian Fellowship.
Questions? E-mail Stephanie Lai (stephanie.lai@simmons.edu).
