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EMPTY BOWLS MEAL TO HIGHLIGHT THIS YEAR'S HUNGER AWARENESS WEEKEND
April 4, 2001-- A simple meal of soup and bread will be served in handmade ceramic bowls on Sunday, April 8 at 1:00 P.M. in Tappan Square. Tickets for the event can be purchased for $5 at the Wilder Student Union front desk. The event is the result of the Winter Term Project of Oberlin College student Adrian Anagnost of Wilmington, North Carolina. Anagnost hopes showing the community a typical meal of those enveloped in poverty will help raise awareness of their plight. Oberlin College students made the ceramic bowls to be used during the meal. Attendees may keep the bowls as a reminder of world hunger.
The Oberlin Hunger Awareness Coalition will spend Saturday, April 7 doing community service projects throughout Lorain County. Comprised of student groups and various campus departments, the Coalition hopes to raise awareness and funds about hunger and homelessness issues.
Interested participants are asked to meet at Oberlin’s First Church (Main & Lorain) at 10:00 A.M. Organizer’s will then direct groups of volunteers to various sites around Lorain County for the 17 Annual Hunger Cleanup. Confirmed sites include the Haven Homeless Shelter, Welcome Nursing Home, Lorain County Metroparks, Second Harvest Foodbank, Elyria YWCA, Common Grounds, Lorain County Historical Society, OSAP (Oberlin Sustainable Agriculture Project), and Oberlin Weekday Hot Meals.
Hunter College sociology professor Janet Poppendieck will give a free lecture at 1:30 p.m. in Oberlin’s Tappan Square. Poppendieck will talk about the availability of emergency food, based on the subject of her book Sweet Charity: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement. The New York Times Book Review said Poppendieck’s book "Demonstrates, convincingly, that the growing emphasis on emergency food for the hungry is a Band-Aid that distracts from the fundamental goal of solving poverty."
The Ohio Public Interest Research Group, sponsors Hunger Awareness Weekend.
Media Contact: Debbie Pillivant
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