Hunger Banquet

            The Hunger Banquet is an event that the Global Issues Network organized in order to raise awareness about the all the starving children in Somalia and on the 8th of October we held the Hunger Banquet.

       On this day at 5 o’clock I went to go and help add the finishing touches. When I went inside the place already looked beautiful.  All we had to do was fold all the schedule's for the event  and put the small decorations. Then at 6:30 the event began and as the people walked into the Multie purpose room they had to get a piece of paper which had a name of person and a short paragraph about their life and their social and economic status. There were three categories the person could be put into. There was low income, middle income and high income. The low income people would have to sit in the floor and they only received water and injera, the middle income people received water in a nice glass some injera with a sauce while the high income received a full meal. The purpose of this was to raise awareness of how many Africans are livening and the seating arrangement allowed the audience to recognize how unfair some of the situations many Africans were faced with. During the event there were many performances, there was a dance done by an Ethiopian dance group and a talk by the Somalia ambassador and people from the red cross.

            The night was a great success with an auction and many participants. We were able  to raise awareness . I was very proud of our club for accomplishing this event very flawlessly. At the end of the night I was part of the clean-up group so I stayed afterwards to cleaning up the mess. But the pity was that the people who were placed in the low income including myself because even the people part of the GIN were given the tickets at random. But unfortunately many of  the low income group who were only given injera without any sauce and  they didn’t eat their food so I felt as if a lot of it went to waste, and I thought that we could  have probably given the low income group samosas which everyone likes at least but I understood whey they were only given injera because it also represents how the low income group also didn’t get to eat what they wanted and most likely to eat the same foods everyday if they were lucky enough to even get food. But the food didn’t go to total waste because we gave some of the left overs to the staff. Overall I thought this event was a great success and it did rais awareness to the people in a very creative way and I’m pretty sure that the people who went will never forget this event . In the end all the money we raised was given to the red cross.  And they were very grateful and I also felt happy for bettering the life of others by organizing and participating in the event.