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22 May 2009, 06:35 AM
For those of you who don't know what this is, it's something the charitable organization World Vision organizes to aid people in third world countries.
It is where you go without something you love or take for granted for 40 hours in order to understand what it is like not to have those things. You get people to sponsor you and at the end of the 40 hours they give you the money and World Vision gives it to people in countries like Bangladesh.
This year me and my friend are doing a "no furniture" famine, so starting from 8 o'clock Pacific time (in one and a half hours) we can't sit on chairs, use tables and we will be sleeping on the floor tonight and tomorrow night.
I can still use technology though ;]
Other famines include no food, no technology, no speaking, no freedom (ties in to no speaking; you tie yourself to someone else for 40 hours)
Does your country have the 40 hour famine? Have you ever done it?
It is where you go without something you love or take for granted for 40 hours in order to understand what it is like not to have those things. You get people to sponsor you and at the end of the 40 hours they give you the money and World Vision gives it to people in countries like Bangladesh.
This year me and my friend are doing a "no furniture" famine, so starting from 8 o'clock Pacific time (in one and a half hours) we can't sit on chairs, use tables and we will be sleeping on the floor tonight and tomorrow night.
I can still use technology though ;]
Other famines include no food, no technology, no speaking, no freedom (ties in to no speaking; you tie yourself to someone else for 40 hours)
Does your country have the 40 hour famine? Have you ever done it?