A lot of high school students in this region won’t be eating this weekend, and it’s not because there is no food in the house.
They are taking part in World Vision’s 30 hour famine today and tomorrow to raise money to help feed people in the Third World.
Allan Price of World Vision Canada says in the Owen Sound area about 400 students are taking part in the famine.
He says across the country more than 100 thousand students are involved in the 30 hour famine and probably will raise in excess of 5 million dollars for food aid.
Price says the young people involved in this are proud of what they are doing and its amazing how many of these understand how many people world wide are in fact starving.
He says this is Canada’s longest running youth action campaign which began in Calgary back in 1971 and now has gone world wide.
Last year 344 students in Owen Sound took part in the 30 Hour Famine.
They raised 17 thousand 836 dollars to help children and families meet the basic necessities of life.