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...Phillips Brooks House (PBH) committee on the homeless and Hunger Action at PBH have scheduled the semi-annual event for Wednesday, November 30, said Hunger Action coordinator Douglas W. Marx '90. Hunger Action workers started signing up students Monday to fast, he said...
Participating students pledge not to eat dinner in University dining halls, and Harvard will donate the money it saves to a women's cooperative in Nicaragua and a group of farmers in rural Kenya, Marx said...
...funds will not actually pay for food, but rather will go to help poor people in those developing countries gain economic self-sufficiency, Marx said. "Short-term food aid has had a lot of negative effects," Marx said. "Projects that are self-perpetuating give a means of helping the people help themselves over the long term...
...Nicaraguan program, which is sponsored by a private aid foundation, the Overseas Development Fund, "aims to create economic opportunity for women," he said. The money donated will buy sewing machines and other materials to help the women of Las Herramades earn money to feed their families, Marx said...
...private African Children's Educational Support Committee organized the Kenyan project, which the Harvard fast will also support, Marx said. Organizers in Kenya hope to establish a profitable chicken farm there, he added...