20 Hr Famine

“Welcome 2013 Famine people” said Mrs Tele’a as people were sitting down and quieting down. It was 20 Hr Famine time and all the people there were fasting for 20 hours for the kids in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. To make sure that we were all actually doing it, we were having a sleepover at school together. All the kids had been put into teams for the night and were given challenges. We played pictionary, charades and we had to make up a chant for our team. I was in the red team with Iron, Tyler, Ata, Vivienne, and our leader, Rita.

Later on in the night Deven from World Vision came over with the ambassadors that actually went to Bougainville to run some games with us and to talk about why we were really fasting. We played a game where, we were a family and we had to find food for each other but it had to be a good meal. We had to build ourselves a house, we had to get clean water for ourselves and we had to go to school. None of those things turned out how we wanted them to. We had dirty water, a house that was falling apart, we failed at school and if I ate the food that we found, I would have hated my life completely!!

Deven talked to us about how that game was actually how families live everyday in Bougainville. All the kids were getting sick because the nurse was never there and the food and water there was making their sickness worse. We did our chants for them and we pretended that it was The X Factor. The red team won so we had to do our chant twice.

I really enjoyed my first famine and I can’t wait till the next one and I actually lasted, I thought that I was going to feel really hungry and just end up going home. I hope that all the kids in Bougainville have all the stuff that they have wanted for a long, long time. I liked knowing that what we were doing was actually helping kids while we were having fun at the same time.

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