Students fast to fight famine
■ The 30-hour World
Vision drive held at the
YWCA benefits hungry
people all over the world
By Brian Goodelh
Oregon Daily Emerald
University students will join
young people all over the country
who will be going without food for
30 hours this weekend to help fight
hunger and poverty. The money
raised from the fast will go to World
Vision, an international Christian re
lief and development agency.
“The effect one individual can
have on so many others is what I
think would motivate a student to
participate in the 30-hour famine,”
World Vision Public Relations As
sociate Yvonne Bennett said. “I §ee
this as an opportunity for young
people all over the world to make a
difference in the world and make a
difference in themselves.”
Participants in the hunger strike
will hold a vigil at the campus
YWCA house in an effort to raise
money and get a better understand
ing of what it feels like to go without
food for an extended period of time.
“We’re doing this to help stu
dents identify with people who
live without food on a regular ba
sis,” YWCA volunteer India
Jensen said. “As a world, we need
to help each other more. ”
Funds raised during the ninth an
nual hunger strike will be used in
Rwanda, Kenya, North Korea, Tan
zania, Peru and the United States.
Last year, more than 600,000 stu
dents across the country raised $8
million through sponsor pledges.
Similar World Vision efforts world
wide involved more than 1.2 mil
lion students in 21 countries, who
collectively raised more than $22
million to fight hunger. World Vi
sion hopes to raise more than $9
million in pledges from the United
States this year.
“Fifty cents a day can feed a
child in Africa who doesn’t have a
chance to make money,” Bennett
said. “A simple 30 hours can pro
vide enough food for a number of
people for months. ”
Diana Sakai, a graduate student
in planning, public policy and
management, said there are plenty
of opportunities for students to
help out in the cause if they do not
feel comfortable going without
food for 30 hours.
“People can sponsor a partici
pant. help out in the cleanup or
just show up at the YWCA for sup
port,” Sakai said. “This is just one
of many ways to get involved and
make a difference. ”
Piven forum
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bilize and influence Congress to
support their profit-based inter
ests.
“Well, they’ve had their run of
the country for years and they’ve
done a lot of harm,” she said.
“The good news is that a lot of
American’s are beginning to no
tice, and I believe we’re on the
cusp of a new movement for jus
tice.”
Another panelist, Kate Barry,
director of the Women in Transi
tion program at Lane Community
College, said recent welfare re
forms have significantly de
creased poor women’s access to
education, a proven boost to high
er-paying and secure jobs.
She said five years ago 65 per
cent of her program participants,
who are predominately low-in
come working mothers, were re
ceiving welfare benefits to help
with school expenses. Today,
less than 5 percent of such
women are enrolled in her pro
gram.
“Reducing welfare rolls and
eliminating poverty are two very
different things,” she said.
ESSN has promoted events and
grassroots activities since 1989,
and, according to organizer Lisa
McCormack, Thursday’s panel
was but the first of many planned
Ryantorkwcather Emerald
Francis Fox Piven addresses economic and social justice issues at a forumThursday.
forums to discuss economic is
sues particular to Lane County in
the coming months.
“We hope to get the momentum
going and start to really work on
these things,” she said. “Knowl
edge of the consequences of labor
and welfare reform will help us
make the issues more visible to
the community.”
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Europa Europa 115 min. Color.
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