Oxfam Canada’s hungry4change Hunger Banquet is a powerful tool that brings to life the inequalities in our world and challenges us to realize how our decisions affect others.  This event dramatizes the fact that over 852 million people are chronically hungry despite the fact that enough food is produced in the world to feed everyone.

Few leave Oxfam Canada’s hungry4change Hunger Banquet with a full stomach, but all leave with a greater understanding of the problems of global hunger and poverty as well as the motivation to do something about it.

How it works?
Each guest randomly draws a ticket assigning them to a high, middle or low income group and is served a corresponding meal.  15 per cent of banquet guests are in the high income group and are served a scrumptious gourmet meal.  25 per cent of guests are in the middle income group and eat a simple meal of rice and beans.  60 per cent of guests are in the low income group, they must wait in line for small portions of rice and water.  

Oxfam Canada’s Hunger Banquet provides opportunities for educating your school, church or community group on hunger issues.  Charging admission to the Banquet is an effective way to raise funds to support Oxfam Canada’s poverty-fighting work.  This event will empower you to create social change, educate others and help Oxfam Canada’s partners who are finding solutions to end poverty and hunger.

Who can participate?
You.  Year after year, Oxfam Canada’s effectiveness depends on people like you - on campuses, in schools, communities, churches, synagogues, mosques – contributing to the fight against poverty.  These battles are often waged in humble settings like parish basements and in community centres, yet their collective impact is enormous.  Together we can change the world.

“There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, no where, at no time, should go hungry.”  Ed Asner