Students at St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Altoona held a Hunger Banquet to mark "National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week".
At the banquet, students and their family members were given tickets with "classes" written on them: rich, middle class and poor. The rich ate gourmet meals on fine china. The middle class ate soup and crackers. And, the poor ate rice and water.
Watch this story to hear what the student organizers thought of the event and the impact it had on them.
At the banquet, students and their family members were given tickets with "classes" written on them: rich, middle class and poor. The rich ate gourmet meals on fine china. The middle class ate soup and crackers. And, the poor ate rice and water.
Watch this story to hear what the student organizers thought of the event and the impact it had on them.
