Gift goes hungry for charity

"Have you ever thought what it would be like to have no food in your home and no money in your pocket?"
This question was posed by Desmond Tutu in a video message shown during the launch of World Vision's "40 hours of famine" campaign in Hyde Park, Johannesburg, on Tuesday.

Gift Gwe is one of a number of well-know celebrities that have thrown their weight behind the famine from the 5th of May until the 7th. How the 40-hour famine will work is that these celebrities have to go Forty hours without solid food. Or, for people who cannot do that, 40 hours without electronic devices, in the alternative techno-famine.Those participating are asked to find sponsors for each hour they fast. The money collected will benefit the programmes that World Vision is running.

World Vision is a worldwide Christian organisation that addresses the causes and consequences of poverty, primarily focusing on children. Last year more than 100-million people in 96 countries benefited from its work, among them more than 36 000 children in South Africa.

We wish Gift all the best with his hungry strike and hope he raises a lot of money for charity.