What is the 30 Hour Famine?

The 30 Hour Famine puts hands and feet to your desire to help students live a life of Christian compassion.

It will unite youth group members like never before. And the impact will last long after the Famine event is over. It can be the spark that fires up a person for a lifetime of reaching out to neighbors in need, whether they're across the street - or around the globe.

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How does the Famine work?

It's really quite simple. First of all, the materials are provided, free of charge, by World Vision. Before your "Famine Date" (February 22-23, 2008 is the next National Famine Date, but your group can hold yours anytime) youth group members raise money through donors and sponsors to help the millions of starving and hurting children in some of the world's poorest countries, offering them a hope they could not otherwise have. The groups then go 30 hours without food, so that they can have a real taste of what hunger is like. During this time they engage in different activities, from community service projects to volunteer work to study, depending on how each group plans their own event. Afterwards the money raised is sent in to World Vision, and we put it to work in areas like Malawi, Swaziland, North Korea, and here in the United States.

What does it take to help a hungry child?

Only $30 a month, just $1 a day, will help feed and care for a child. You can start by asking twelve people they know to donate $30 - that's one person for each month of the year. When you've done that, you will have raised $360, enough money to help feed and provide necessary care to a child for a whole year.

Every year, thousands of groups in more than 21 countries - over 1 million teens - unite with one goal in mind: to help children living in some of the most deplorable conditions on earth.

Countless lives will be impacted and saved. So join the hundreds of thousands of US teens who are already doing something. This can be the single most effective event you're a part of all year to make a difference in peoples' lives. And this means both in your community, and around the globe. Shake things up, and join the winnable war to save kids lives.