IMAGE GALLERY: Students Hold Hunger Banquet

It is hard for many of us to relate to the feeling of poverty felt by so many around the world.

Amherst Middle School held their sixth annual Oxfam Hunger Banquet to raise awareness about the hunger and injustice that millions of people experience.

Participants are randomly assigned to categories of upper, middle and lower class and their seating and meals reflect those class standings. The upper class receive a three-course meal at a table, the middle class is served beans and rice and the lower class participants receive plates of rice and sit on the floor.

For example, 60 percent of attendees, including SAU #39 employees, sat on a newspaper covered floor to represent the portion of the world's population who live on inadequate food.

The students raised $845.13 through donations by the attendees, which will go directly to OXFAM America. This donation amount would help to dig a well, stock a cereal bank, and supply a tribe of goats for a village, in addition to providing a family with mosquito nets and a dozen chicks. 

Oxfam Banquets are held worldwide by Oxfam, which is an international collective of groups and countries working to end world hunger.