Understand poverty, hunger and social injustice with new perspectives. Join the UTC Freshman Senate, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Oxfam for an interactive Oxfam Hunger banquet.
If you go
What: Oxfam Hunger Banquet Event
When: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22
Where: Multicultural Center, University Center
Admission: Free for students, faculty and staff, but you must RSVP here. Cellphones are required to participate.
Information: https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/about-oxfam
Guests are randomly assigned to three different tiers: high-, medium- or low-income. At the banquet, they’ll share a meal with their newly acquired peers and get a taste of what it feels like to be on the spectrum of global income levels. Participants gain insights into the struggles of poverty and how sustainable solutions can help a village for years to come.
Cellphones are required to participate.
Oxfam
For more than 70 years, working in more than 90 countries, Oxfam has created lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and social injustice. Its efforts include partnering with communities to create proactive, sustainable resources for responding to disasters and overcoming poverty and injustice. Oxfam emphasizes the power of education. Through events like their hunger banquets, it works to change the way people think about poverty and its causes. Learn more here.
