Cincinnati State students joining Thirty Hour Famine

April 22, 2009

Students at Cincinnati State are joining a worldwide effort to raise awareness about hunger.

Members of a campus student group, Beyond Borders, will set up a cardboard shantytown outdoors in the courtyard of the Advanced Technology Learning Center (ATLC) on the Clifton campus beginning at 4 p.m. Friday, April 24. The event includes a showing of the film “Blood Diamond.’’ Participants will spend the night in the cardboard structures they created. On Saturday students will distribute canned goods they have collected over the past month to organizations in Greater Cincinnati that assist children.

Cincinnati State students are also participating in the “Thirty-Hour Famine,’’ a fasting period organized on a worldwide basis by a non-profit organization, World Vision. Students have solicited donations in connection with World Vision’s April 24-25 “Starve for Food’’ drive, and will fast for 30 hours to get a first-hand glimpse at how hunger affects those living in extreme poverty.

For more information about the event please contact Beyond Borders members Cara Dyne at (513) 545-9104 or Richa Ghevarghese at (513) 382-8227, or by e-mail.

Click here for background about World Vision’s “Will Starve for Food’’ 30-Hour Famine.