Share-Your-Lunch, a social-media action initiative that seeks to share food with the underprivileged in the society who cannot afford 3 square meals a day has been held at Circle Station, Darkuman on Saturday September 10, 2011.
The event, the first of its kind in the country, gave the opportunity to people to make online lunch pledges on Facebook and delivered those pledges by bringing lunch meals to share with people who can hardly afford a nourishing afternoon meal, in an event dubbed ‘Share-Your-Lunch’, of which the maiden event reached more than 150 people from the Darkuman community, mainly children, female head potter girls and nursing mothers and young people.
The initiative, scheduled for every quarter has an online community in a Facebook page where members hold discussions on fighting hunger and poverty in Ghana through sharing, and also advocate for a joint and unifying government, public, civil societies and private partnership and efforts to combat hunger in Ghana through sustainable agricultural initiatives and green revolutions.
According to Gideon Commey, the online administrator of the ¬Share-Your-Lunch Facebook page, more than 60 online pledges were received and nearly half of those pledges were successfully delivered last Saturday at the event.
Philip Atawura, the Event Coordinator indicated that the idea behind Share-Your-Lunch transcends the boundaries of just eating food but rather seeks to carry a strong message across that sharing holds the key to bridging social inequality since the world’s resources are enough for all mankind. He hinted that the next event would be this December.
The event was organized by Interfaith Ghana, a youth focused and eco-friendly organization in Ghana that works to promote understanding between people from different faiths and background by engaging them in social action projects that focus on the common values behind their faith rather than the differences between them.