30-hour famine efforts raise $2,000

Youth groups from the Warwick United Methodist Church and Warwick Valley Church of the Nazarene recently combined forces to raise money and awareness to combat world hunger and poverty through their participation in a 30-hour famine event. Organized by World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice, the group raised a combined total of $2,000. During the fast, the group played a game called “Tribe,” where each participant was given a specific identity of a child who suffers from hunger. They also attempted to cover a large paper with 29,000 fingerprints, to represent the 29,000 children who die of hunger-related problems every day. The participants gained a new appreciation of having food available to them every day.