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From 10 to 15 Fulton deaf students will get a taste of hunger next month when they fast for 30 hours while also collecting money and food to help ease world hunger.
The event begins on Friday, Feb. 6, and ends on Saturday, Feb. 7. It is organized by Tessi Muskrat of the Hands of Love Deaf Ministry at the First Baptist Church in Fulton. The Fulton students will participate in World Vision's annual 30 Hour Famine.
The Fulton youngsters will join half a million teens nationwide in their goal to raise $12 million to fight world hunger.
“Although other Fulton churches have participated in this event in the past,” Muskrat said, “this is the first time to my knowledge that deaf students have been the main focus of the event in Fulton.”
As part of World Vision's 30 Hour Famine, Fulton deaf students as young as 13 and as old as 18 or 19 will fast for 30 hours. They will be given a brief written statement explaining their effort to help starving children throughout the world that they can hand to people when they go door-to-door to solicit donations for World Vision and to collect canned food for the SERVE food pantry in Fulton.
“This way the students will be able to help relieve hunger on both international and local levels,” Muskrat said.
Students will gather at the First Baptist Church for the fast and they also will conduct door-to-door solicitations in Fulton.
“I have been securing signed permission statements from parents in order to allow the students to leave school and participate in the event on Friday and Saturday,” Muskrat said.
“Although most of the students attend the Missouri School for the Deaf, this is not a MSD event,” Muskrat said.
The deaf teens in Fulton, Muskrat said, are excited to become part of the event and are eager to do their best to help children throughout the world.
Now in its 18th year, World Vision's 30 Hour Famine raises awareness and money to fight hunger both overseas and in the United States.
For 30 hours the Fulton students will go without food and consume only liquids to experience what the poorest children and families face every day.
Muskrat said more than 840 million people around the world don't have enough to eat. About 9 million children under the age of 5 die from disease and malnutrition as a result of hunger. “A mere $30 donation can feed a child for an entire month in poverty stricken areas,” Muskrat said.
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide by dealing with the causes of poverty. The organization serves the world's poor regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity or gender. More information about the organization is available at Sponsor A Child - World Vision on the Internet.
From 10 to 15 Fulton deaf students will get a taste of hunger next month when they fast for 30 hours while also collecting money and food to help ease world hunger.
The event begins on Friday, Feb. 6, and ends on Saturday, Feb. 7. It is organized by Tessi Muskrat of the Hands of Love Deaf Ministry at the First Baptist Church in Fulton. The Fulton students will participate in World Vision's annual 30 Hour Famine.
The Fulton youngsters will join half a million teens nationwide in their goal to raise $12 million to fight world hunger.
“Although other Fulton churches have participated in this event in the past,” Muskrat said, “this is the first time to my knowledge that deaf students have been the main focus of the event in Fulton.”
As part of World Vision's 30 Hour Famine, Fulton deaf students as young as 13 and as old as 18 or 19 will fast for 30 hours. They will be given a brief written statement explaining their effort to help starving children throughout the world that they can hand to people when they go door-to-door to solicit donations for World Vision and to collect canned food for the SERVE food pantry in Fulton.
“This way the students will be able to help relieve hunger on both international and local levels,” Muskrat said.
Students will gather at the First Baptist Church for the fast and they also will conduct door-to-door solicitations in Fulton.
“I have been securing signed permission statements from parents in order to allow the students to leave school and participate in the event on Friday and Saturday,” Muskrat said.
“Although most of the students attend the Missouri School for the Deaf, this is not a MSD event,” Muskrat said.
The deaf teens in Fulton, Muskrat said, are excited to become part of the event and are eager to do their best to help children throughout the world.
Now in its 18th year, World Vision's 30 Hour Famine raises awareness and money to fight hunger both overseas and in the United States.
For 30 hours the Fulton students will go without food and consume only liquids to experience what the poorest children and families face every day.
Muskrat said more than 840 million people around the world don't have enough to eat. About 9 million children under the age of 5 die from disease and malnutrition as a result of hunger. “A mere $30 donation can feed a child for an entire month in poverty stricken areas,” Muskrat said.
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide by dealing with the causes of poverty. The organization serves the world's poor regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity or gender. More information about the organization is available at Sponsor A Child - World Vision on the Internet.