In an effort to create awareness about the plight of children who go hungry everyday, World Vision India organised a ‘24 hour famine’ on Friday.
The purpose was to bring together youth, school children and supporters to express their concern and solidarity to the less privileged.
Anil Mishram, member secretary of the State Planning Commission inaugurated the ‘24 hour famine’ by symbolically locking loaves of bread, representing the mission to go hungry for the next 24 hours.
“The 24 hour famine tells us that children and youngsters like you can make a great difference.
Your efforts will definitely go a long way in releasing people from the clutches of hunger and poverty,” he said.
More than 500 children from 30 schools to participated, though the act of going hungry for a day was purely voluntary, added volunteers from World Vision India.
Several volunteers pledged to go without food for 24 hours for the cause.