This May, NUMC High School students will set aside the usual “stuff” that fills their daily lives. Instead, they “WILL STARVE FOR FOOD” – the theme for World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine this year – by going without food for 30 hours to get a taste of what the world’s poorest children and families face everyday. Prior to the event weekend, students are raising funds with the knowledge that every $30 they raise can help feed and care for a child for a month.
As part of the Famine, the teens will have held pie and bake sales at the church and have also concocted an eye opening fundraiser using of all things . . . a commode, a privy, a throne . . . okay, it’s a toilet! But a very unusual toilet!
This Throne's for You!
How will they raise funds with a toilet you may ask? The idea is for “sponsors” to sign up (and make a $5 donation) to have the throne delivered to their “friends” residences, where the thing sits until a number is called for pick-up. The “victim” calls the pick-up number and makes a $10 donation to have it removed. They also have the option of having it delivered somewhere else ($5 donation) or they can “buy” insurance to prevent it from returning ($5 donation).
[These teens are sensitive and understand if someone does not wish to participate in this activity as they spread the word on hunger.]
Obviously this is all done in fun and a creative way for the teens to spread the word on the mission they are doing to raise money in order to save the lives of starving kids. Annually, more than 9 million children under the age of five die from disease and malnutrition as a result of hunger. But world hunger is 100% preventable and teens from Newtown United Methodist Church are ready to be a part of the solution.
