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Article: Feast or Famine? Half a Million American Teens 'Fed Up' Enough to Do the World Vision 30 Hour Famine; Youth Nationwide to Go Without Food to Help Care for Hungry Children Worldwide.
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- February 23, 2004
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SEATTLE, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- It's a tragic irony that one out of every eight children in the United States is overweight while 153 million children worldwide under the age of five are malnourished. On February 27-28, half a million young Americans are showing that they are fed up with this alarming discrepancy -- and are willing to do something about it.
The teens are participating in the World Vision 30 Hour Famine, forsaking food for 30 hours to get a taste of what the world's poorest children and families face on a daily basis. The teens will accept this challenging sacrifice as the culmination of their fundraising efforts to help feed children in ...