Hunger Banquet focuses on the struggles and consequences of hunger in Baltimore, the United States, the World
Issue date: 2/9/10 Section: News
By Maria-Pia Negro
Staff Writer
The Center for Community Service and Justice's annual Hunger Banquet 2010 took place last Wednesday in the fourth floor programming room. As part of this annual tradition, the Hunger Banquet was a metaphor for how food and other resources are inequitably distributed in the world.
The banquet offered extensive information and statistics on world hunger, American hunger and the hunger in Baltimore. This along with movie clips, such as Share Our Strength, and testimonies this banquet raised questions "to further explore these harsh truths that are so commonly forgotten."
Senior Liz Duclos one of the five CCSJ service coordinators who planned the banquet, said the idea was to present a "snapshot" the get people thinking about the vast issue of hunger. Attendees received a color identity card once they arrived, along with an opening quiz to get the attendees thinking about hunger.
This quiz showed that hunger is not just related to just food; "The lack of access to enough food to fully meet basic needs due to the lack of financial resources, this is also known as "food insecurity."
"It is only our circumstances that differ. Some are born into relative prosperity and security, while millions-by no choice of their own-are born into poverty," said Alicia Condon, CCSJ service coordinator who also planned this year's event.
As a way to show this, roles were distributed according to their cards and so were seats which were meant not just to determine the "place" in society.
The first group represented 15 percent of the world's population with an income of $9,076 or more and sat at two tables. The second group, 25 percent of the world, made between $912 and $9,075 a year. They are the people who live on the edge and sat on the chairs.
Those left on the floor sat there for the rest of the banquet. They represented the majority of the world's population with income is less than $911 a year and struggle to find food, water and shelter. Also, "even though education is the single most powerful weapon against poverty," school is a luxury for them.
Staff Writer
The Center for Community Service and Justice's annual Hunger Banquet 2010 took place last Wednesday in the fourth floor programming room. As part of this annual tradition, the Hunger Banquet was a metaphor for how food and other resources are inequitably distributed in the world.
The banquet offered extensive information and statistics on world hunger, American hunger and the hunger in Baltimore. This along with movie clips, such as Share Our Strength, and testimonies this banquet raised questions "to further explore these harsh truths that are so commonly forgotten."
Senior Liz Duclos one of the five CCSJ service coordinators who planned the banquet, said the idea was to present a "snapshot" the get people thinking about the vast issue of hunger. Attendees received a color identity card once they arrived, along with an opening quiz to get the attendees thinking about hunger.
This quiz showed that hunger is not just related to just food; "The lack of access to enough food to fully meet basic needs due to the lack of financial resources, this is also known as "food insecurity."
"It is only our circumstances that differ. Some are born into relative prosperity and security, while millions-by no choice of their own-are born into poverty," said Alicia Condon, CCSJ service coordinator who also planned this year's event.
As a way to show this, roles were distributed according to their cards and so were seats which were meant not just to determine the "place" in society.
The first group represented 15 percent of the world's population with an income of $9,076 or more and sat at two tables. The second group, 25 percent of the world, made between $912 and $9,075 a year. They are the people who live on the edge and sat on the chairs.
Those left on the floor sat there for the rest of the banquet. They represented the majority of the world's population with income is less than $911 a year and struggle to find food, water and shelter. Also, "even though education is the single most powerful weapon against poverty," school is a luxury for them.
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