The Oxfam Hunger Banquet
What is it?
"The Oxfam Hunger Banquet is a powerful tool that brings to life the inequalities in our world and challenges us-as the more economically fortunate-to realize how our decisions affect others in the world. Few leave an Oxfam Hunger Banquet with full stomachs, but all leave filled with a greater understanding of the problems of global hunger and poverty and the motivation to do something about it." (Oxfam's Hunger Banquet Planning Kit)
When is it?
Saturday, March 4th at 7:00pm
Where is it?
Student Life Center Ballroom
Who'll be there?
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Director of the UN Millennium Project, will be delivering a special video address to Hunger Banquet attendees.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.
He is also Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally
agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is internationally renowned for advising governments
in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa on economic reforms and for his work with international agencies
to promote poverty reduction, disease control, and debt reduction of poor countries. He was recently named among the 100 most influential leaders
in the world by Time Magazine. He is author of hundreds of scholarly articles and many books. Sachs was recently elected into the Institute of Medicine
and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard University,
most recently as the Director of the Center for International Development. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.
- Oxfam staff and Oxfam CHANGE leaders
- Loads of conference participants!
How much does it cost to attend?
There is no charge to attend the Oxfam America Hunger Banquet but space is limited to the first 300 people who request a ticket during conference registration.
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