Students shun ‘greed’ for famine fundraiser

Andrew Mathieson
World Vision’s 40-hour Famine campaign is more than just missing a few meals while sucking on barley sugars to Geelong College students.
They are sacrificing everyday luxuries like mobile phones and internet access in an attempt to raise money for victims of starvation around the world.
College campaign organiser and school chaplain David Curnow said many senior students were thinking outside the square to know what it was like to go without.
“It’s not just the food they take out of their life; it could be technology, it could be anything they give up for the 40 hours,” he said.
“The idea is to give up something that has a hold of your life; things that drive them in a way that may be seen as greedy.”
Now entering its 10th year participating in the 40-hour Famine, the college has led other Geelong schools in fundraising more than $28,000.
The students will be among thousands around the nation fasting as Australians cast votes in the federal election on August 21.