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International Development Week - Hunger Dinner
On February 10, the Victoria International Development Education Association's (VIDEA) Breakthrough for Africa-Victoria (BfA) group hosted an evening dinner at the Fernwood Community Centre to portray what it’s like to eat in the developed, developing and underdeveloped worlds.
As guests arrived at the centre, they were randomly given a place to sit by drawing a coded token. They soon discovered that the eating sections were based on income group and class: First World, Second World and Third World - and the dinner they were about to receive was clearly indicative of that!
According to real world population distributions, the First World group were the smallest in size and privileged to enjoy the three-course meal at a table with fine china and cutlery - which most Canadians are accustomed to. At the other end of the spectrum, the largest group represented the Third World who were served rice, which they ate with their hands and swallowed with brown water while sitting on the floor.
In addition to dinner and featured guest speaker Moussa Magassa, human rights advisor with the University of Victoria's Equity and Human Rights Office, there was a silent auction to help raise funds to support the BfA's group partnership with the people of Lundazi, a rural district in the Eastern province of Zambia.
For more information about VIDEA or to get involved, check out www.videa.ca or call VIDEA at (250) 385-2333.
