Recently, Brigham Young University’s Students for International Development held the 26th annual Hunger Banquet to raise awareness about global hunger.This year's theme is the “Generation of Innovation,” and the event was held at the Ernest L. Wilkinson Student Center on the BYU campus in Provo.
Banquet attendees were divided into three groups based on income and access to food; upper class, middle class and lower class. They use such distribution roughly reflect the world’s poverty index. Attendants to the event were distributed with 70 percent at the bottom, representing the lower income class taking up about 70 percent of the world's population. Then they had 20 percent in middle class, and 10 percent in the upper class.
The upper class group received ice-cold water, appetizers served by waiters and a full meal. The middle class received a small bowl with chicken, rice, a cookie and a sugary drink. And finally, those in the lower income received only rice and beans, and a serving of a tortilla.
The event itself was aimed at coming up with “novel solutions to social problems that are more effective, efficient, sustainable, or more than just current solutions,” according to the event’s description.
To learn more about the Students for International Development and the event, click here.
