TAKEPLACE: HUNGRY FOR A DAY

Sunday, March 27, 2011

HUNGRY FOR A DAY

Imagine what it feels like to go hungry for a day. Now, imagine what it feels like to go hungry for two days, a week or more. Hundreds of millions do, you know.

On Monday, March 28, Heifer International's CEO, Pierre Ferrari, and its President, Jo Luck, plan to go a day without food as a way to speak out for the hungry people of the world and in alignment with a larger fast by Tony Hall, a former Ohio congressman and ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture (www.hungerfast.org). HEIFER

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