USC students to host hunger banquet, accept food donations

University of South Carolina students, faculty and staff and community members are invited to join Carolina Service Council (CSC), Carolina Productions and Amnesty International for a hunger banquet from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Thursday, April 5.  The event, part of Oxfam America’s Fast for a World Harvest campaign, will be in the Russell House ballroom, and will include a meal and presentation to demonstrate the inequitable food and resource distribution around the world. 

Admission to the hunger banquet is free, and participants are encouraged to register prior to the event at www.sa.sc.edu/communityservice/CSC.  At the banquet, Carolina Service Council will accept nonperishable food item donations for Columbia’s Harvest Hope Food Bank. 

This educational event, aimed to accommodate 200 participants, will address a range of related cultural issues including hunger, poverty, women’s rights, education and health care. Participants will receive both dinner and a helping of new world perspective.

This year's event will be the 12^th hunger banquet held at the university.  The last event, hosted by USC’s Oxfam-related student organization in 2004, marked the 11^th annual hunger banquet. CSC hopes to revive the tradition.

Oxfam is an international relief and development organization that works in more than 100 countries to end poverty, hunger and injustice.

Anyone interested in volunteering, donating or learning more should contact Kat Heavner at heavnerm@mailbox.sc.edu or 803-622-6332.