Host a Hunger Banquet

Over nine million people, including HOW you’re doing it:

five million children, die worldwide
“I plan on helping my classmates
each year because of hunger and
understand this problem with an
malnutrition. A simple hunger
exercise that will show them
banquet can make your classmates
how unfair it is.”
more aware of how others in
the world—and maybe in your
community—face the daily problem
of hunger. Here’s how to host one: 2 Get some snacks. See if the
lunchroom will donate ad-
ditional snacks for the day so you
have enough to help your class re-
1 Make your case. You’ll have to get
permission from your teacher
or principal. Explain what you’re
ally get the point. It doesn’t have to
be fancy—just make sure you have
enough—an apple, orange, cookie—
doing and why and give a quick
for each kid in the class.
description of how you’re going to
do it. (Have your Elevator Pitch from Number of snacks:
Project #24 on page 193 handy.)

It could sound something like this. What will those snacks be?

WHAT you’re doing:

“I’d like to use snack time to
explain how big a problem hunger
is around the world.”

Who will donate them?

WHY you’re doing it:
“Most people don’t know that 15
percent of the world consumes
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more food than they require

while 50 percent of the world
does not get enough food.”

3 Presentation time. Begin with a

short explanation of the world
hunger problem. Here’s an example
of what you can say:

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 “Half the world—nearly three
billion people—lives on less than
6 Talk it out. Discuss the follow-
ing questions:
$2 a day. And 15 percent—that’s
900 million—eat more than they
* How do you feel that five of
your classmates got two snacks?
need to, 35 percent (210 million)
Is this fair?
have just enough to eat, while 50
percent (three billion) don’t get * How do you think this affects
enough food every day. Those people’s health?
numbers may be a lot for you to
understand, so we’re going to do
an exercise that will help put this
into simple terms.”
notes:

4 Divide them up. Split your class

into three groups: a group that
makes up 15 percent of the class; a
group that makes up 35 percent of
the class; and a group that makes up
50 percent of the class. So if there
are 30 students in your class, the
groups should be made up like this:
• 5 students in Group A
(that’s the 15 percent )
•10 students in Group B
(that’s the 35 percent)
• 15 students in Group C
(that’s the 50 percent)

5
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Distribute. Hand out food to the

different groups.
*Give Group A two snacks each
and tell them to enjoy

* Give Group B one snack each

*Give Group C one quarter of a
snack

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