Students Focus On World Issues At Hunger Banquet

A total of 1.2 billion people live in property, and 842 million of these people suffer from chronic hunger. A child dies from hunger and other preventable diseases ever 2.9 seconds. That is 30,000 children a day.

Amherst Middle School held its 7th Annual Oxfam Hunger Banquet on Tuesday to raise awareness of hunger and poverty-related issues throughout the world.

Students are assigned seats in the upper, middle and lower class with meals that represent their situation. This made the difference between the small percent eating a three-course meal on a table and the many eating rice on the floor.

A trio of students kept count of how many children were lost throughout the course of the banquet, each one represented by a bean.

Students performed poetry, skits and in videos to highlight organizations that are working on these problems such as Born Free, Save the Children and UNICEF.

Find out more about Oxfam and the banquets that are held worldwide.