Local Youth Fight Hunger by Going Hungry

Nearly three dozen local youth recently participated in World Vision's 30 Hour Famine, an international youth movement to end death by hunger across the globe.

Participants go 30 hours without food so that they can have a real taste of what hunger is like. As they fast, teens consume only water and juice and focus on local community assistance (like volunteering at food drives, soup kitchens of homeless shelters).

The kids raised close to $5,000 for the cause and learned about clean water, adequate food and medical care and why the world would be so much better if all the children had it.

Shown in the attached photo are the teens who fasted for thirty hours at :

Jesse and Seth Azevedo, Marissa Berry, Kevin Bjarnason, Jacob Burt, James and Samara Chapman, Delia Ernst, Anna Flaws, Becky Ford, Michelle Hargeaves, Patrick Holden, Victoria Johnson, Kayla Keathly, Victoria Koch, Mary Kulasenki, Megan Locascio, Sierra Manning, Samantha Michaud, Tim Morris, Michael and Isabella O'Keefe, Ben and Colin Plant, Wendy Smith, Alexander and William Staddon, Samantha Turley, Cassidy White-Ryan, Troy Willis, Madeline and Ben Wooding, and Thien Wrang.

While the kids were being playful in this picture they learned that hunger is not at all fun. 

Submitted by Marilyn Keurajian