Young people experience 30-Hour Famine

From Upper South Carolina-

Sixty-five young people between the ages of 12 and 18 began a 30-hour fast to raise awareness and funds to benefit the hungry and homeless here and around the world at midnight Friday, February 24, 2012. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Youth joined with hundreds of thousands of other youth worldwide in the “30 Hour Famine,” a program sponsored by WorldVision, an international Christian humanitarian organization.

WorldVision serves children, families, and their communities in nearly 100 countries around the world by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. The youth of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral will donate 100% of monies raised this weekend to the WorldVision’s ministry to the people of Haiti.

According to World- Vision, in the wake of the January, 2010, earthquake that struck Haiti, an estimated three million Haitians are unable to access enough nutritious food to stay healthy. The growth of more than one in four children younger than five is stunted as a result of poor nutrition, more than half of the population struggles to survive at or below the global poverty level of $1.25 a day, and the 2010 earthquake and tropical storms that followed devastated 70 percent of Haiti’s agriculture.

Elementary schooler Timothy Smith adds a roof to his box shelter.
Early Saturday morning, February 25, 2012, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s youth began building 100 cardboard homes outside on the grounds of the downtown cathedral to sleep in that night. During the day on Saturday they participated in activities together including community service and fellowship.

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