Starving For A Good Cause
Comments (0) March 27, 2007 I wrote the 7th post on epicdialogue called: “Starving For A [Good?] Cause [And A Little Attention]“ highlighting the ridiculous attempts of “J” to get Sanjaya booted from American Idol to restore the shows “dignity” through a hunger strike (which I’m fairly sure she was not really following through with, but whatever). Her hunger strike drew a little attention, but failed to produce immediate results.
Hunger strikes can be powerful tools of attention grabbing, especially if the cause is fitting. I recently became aware of one such cause.
My friend Amanda Hoos introduced me to Brandt Russo and his cause. Here’s what he is setting out to do:
I’m going to go on a hunger strike to raise awareness and the much needed funds for these children. I’ve decided not to eat again starting Sunday, December 6th, until I can raise $15,500 to help Ryan Alexander of Not Fashionable in his quest to end hunger by us helping him provide medicine to deworm 1,000,000 children.
The World Health Organization states that intestinal parasites eat up to 20% of a child’s nutritional intake a day, so deworming is a big deal.
Self Sacrifice + Raised Awareness = A Good Cause
Check out Operation Starvation and consider contributing to the cause.
