How do you feel when you see a homeless person? Speaking from personal experience, I have to admit that I feel uncomfortable. However, I know that I shouldn’t feel that way. It’s something that I’m continually working to overcome. The first step is identifying how I honestly feel, so that I can figure out what…
Did you know that the World Vision 30 Hour Famine started in our very own city of Calgary? The first 30 Hour Famine began in 1971, when 17-year-old Ruth Roberts and his friends had a church basement event in Calgary to raise money for children suffering during a famine. Today, thousands of teens across Canada…
Collecting food bank items instead of candy A couple weeks ago, I wrote this post about alternative ways for teenagers to spend Halloween. So what did I end up doing on Halloween? Nothing even close to what I included in that blog post. Except maybe the concept of spreading happiness. Why? I scared hunger. I…
Now now, what is this thing you speak of? – Hunger is an issue that may lead to homelessness, but also wider in scope. Through Food Banks Canada‘s HungerCount 2012 report, 53,512 people received food from Alberta’s food banks in the one-month survey period, 44.1% of those being under 18 years of age. Only 1.1% of those accounted for are living on…
Note: read my article on what the hunger dinner is before reading this one. 🙂 The Hunger Dinner was very inspirational, I would say. No, that sounds a bit too generalized. We’ve finished promoting this event and the fruits have blossomed! How do I start? F0od perhaps? Talk about differences there. Sharing is caring, though. Alice was…
“17,500 Calgarians are living below the current ‘living wage’..” “1 in 3 Children are under poverty in Alberta’s First Nations’ communities….” “Poverty affects 1 in 5 children under the age of 15 in Calgary..” Statistics on a report matter; yet so does your hands-on experience of eating what can be often deemed “third-world food” by…
Hunger Games (Parody of Grenade)
Hunger. It’s one of the world’s most crippling pandemics, and it’s not just limited to Africa or Asia. Even here, in Canada, one of the wealthiest nations in the world, over 900,000 people use the food bank as their source of food each month.
[youtube Fue4uQufBKo] Recently I had the privilege of taking part in the 30 Hour Famine at my church, and I can tell you that not consuming anything solid for 30 hours is not a pleasant thing to experience. I decided to take part in this event because I felt the need to support a starving…