Hwaseong City Conducts '2012 Hunger Experience 24-Hour Hwaseong Camp'

Hwaseong City and World Vision Gyeonggi Branch announced that they conducted the '2012 Hunger Experience 24-Hour Hwaseong Camp' at the Indoor Gymnasium of Hwaseong General Sports Complex on the 27th and 28th with 1,500 participants.

Youth participants in the hunger experience program were organized into groups of 10, with 20 groups of 200 youth forming one nation, divided into five countries—Burundi, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Somalia—to participate in the program.

This hunger experience provided youth with an opportunity to experience the pain of African refugees through global citizenship education and various experiential activities, while raising awareness once again about the value of water.

In particular, youth indirectly participated in the suffering of African children through refugee walking experiences and water-drinking experiences, as well as 'Remember 3 Seconds,' a program sharing the pain of African children who die at the rate of one every 3 seconds due to malnutrition, and the '5-Year Performance,' designed to empathize with the suffering of African children who die before reaching their fifth birthday.

This event was hosted by Hwaseong City and the Hwaseong City Volunteer Center, organized by World Vision Gyeonggi Branch, and sponsored by MG Saemaul Geumgo Hwaseong City Council.

Meanwhile, 40 million won from youth individual participant donations and corporate sponsorships from MG Saemaul Geumgo Hwaseong City Council will be donated in full to World Vision, to be used for the construction of wells and hand pumps in Krachowest, Ghana, Africa.