Get Involved
There are lots more ways to get involved and help those who are suffering in the Global Food Crisis.
- Step one to helping hungry kids is to sign-up to do the 40 Hour Famine. We've got all the info and guides.
- Step two involves taking action to change the way you live and taking the lead amongst your friends and family in the fight against hunger. Take the initiative to change the world through these actions, ideas and suggestions.
Want to help hungry kids? Here’s what you can do!
Sign up as a Group Leader. If your school, church group, social group, work, or family have already signed up find out who the Group Leader is and join them.
If you don’t want to be part of a 40 Hour Famine group, you can sign up as an individual participant instead. Ask people to support you with a donation for giving up something really important to you for 40 hours (you can only go without food for 8 hours if you’re at primary school).
Become a 40 Hour Famine Group Leader
Passionate about helping hungry kids? Want to start your own 40 Hour Famine Group and bring others along for the ride? When you become a Group Leader you get the awesome task of telling people about important issues like the Global Food Crisis and poverty, and encouraging them to do something real by either signing up to the 40 Hour Famine or donating to the cause. You can start a group in your school, church, workplace, community organisation or with a bunch of friends. To find out more of what you’ll be doing...
- Sign up online
- Receive your group leader’s kit
- Recruit: get as many group members as you can and give them a receipt book*
- Motivate: decide what you’re all giving up and start raising $$$
- 40 Hour Famine weekend: have an awesome time!
- Banking and awards: bank the funds and apply for awards
- Thanks for growing real solutions to hunger!
Download 40 Hour Famine Group Leader's guide (PDF: 2.15 MB)
Become a 40 Hour Famine Group Member
Has your school, church, workplace, community organisation or bunch of friends already got a 40 Hour Famine Group? Sign up with your group leader and they’ll give you everything you need to help hungry kids! You’re in for a fun ride...
- Sign up with your group leader
- Get receipt book
- Choose what you’re giving up and raise $$$
- Have an awesome 40 Hour Famine weekend!
- Give the $$$ to your group leader and apply for awards
- Thanks for growing real solutions to hunger!
Download 40 Hour Famine Group Member's guide (PDF: 1.70 MB)
Become an individual participant
Happy to help but got no group? If you’d rather go it alone you can sign up to the 40 Hour Famine as an individual participant. You’ll get to do everything online – from asking for donations to banking funds – not to mention chatting with other participants! Here’s what you’re up for...
- Sign up online
- Choose what you’re giving up and raise $$$
- Have an awesome 40 Hour Famine weekend!
- Download award application forms and apply
- Thanks for growing real solutions to hunger!
Download 40 Hour Famine Individual Participant guide (PDF: 1.71 MB)
Donate
Strapped for spare time? Donate now to help hungry kids affected by the Global Food Crisis. Here’s how...
- Donate online now
- Receive receipt via email
- Thanks for growing real solutions to hunger!
Want to do more?
There are lots more ways to get involved and help those who are suffering in the Global Food Crisis, besides doing the 40 Hour Famine. Take the initiative to change the world through these actions, ideas and suggestions.
ACT:
- Do the 40 Hour Famine: 2009 and BITE BACK AT HUNGER.
- Attend the Hoyts - 40 Hour Famine Film Festival at selected cinemas near you (21-23 August 2009).
LEAD:
- Take leadership at your school, church or workplace by arranging a presentation on the Global Food Crisis. Organise your local World Vision representative to talk about how we can help transform the world’s poorest families and communities.
- Talk to your friends and family about whether it’s ethical to buy and sell shares in basic human necessities, like food.
- Join Vision Generation (VGen) a group of passionate young people who campaign relentlessly and speak out for those who can’t. VGenners believe our generation can truly make poverty history.
- Join our online community of STIRrers, chat in the blender, share ideas and discuss issues of social justice with like-minded young people from across Australia.
- Explore the issues of the Global Food Crisis with your Church Youth Group by working through five great Bible Studies by Mark Sayers, author of ‘Trouble with Paris'.
CHANGE:
- Consume less and reduce your environmental footprint on the earth!
- Be a fair trader. If you can’t find Australian-made products, buy fair trade instead to make sure all producers get a fair go.
- Think about travel. Carpool, train it or ride your bike. Or take the bus instead of driving or getting someone to drive you. Or just walk! Consider ways you can decrease your dependence on oil and your carbon footprint.
- Chat to your friends, family, teachers and/or co-workers about climate solutions you can achieve at your school, workplace and/or in your own home. Climate change is not just a problem for developing countries – it’s a global problem.
* If someone in your group lost their receipt book, fax us the Lost Receipt Book Declaration form (PDF: 54 KB)
