Sheffield school leads the way to Downing Street on hunger campaign
Hallam Schools get hungry for change in Sheffield's winter garden
Sheffield schoolchildren will be paying David Cameron a visit to show the actions they have taken on behalf of the campaign on global hunger.
Members of the school council from St Thomas More Catholic Primary School in Creswick Lane, Grenoside, have led their school this year in getting involved with the Enough Food For Everyone If campaign. They will be part of a group of 100 young people from schools and colleges across the country joining together to hand in symbolic representations of their actions to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street on 6 June – just ahead of the Big IF g8 Rally on 8 June.
The St Thomas More school council researched the IF campaign and were inspired to get involved by creating part of a hunger cloth as a centre piece for a CAFOD exhibition at the Sheffield Winter Gardens in March. They also wrote messages to David Cameron asking him to use his influence to make world food distribution fairer. They’ve taken all they have learnt back into school and have inspired pupils and staff to get involved.
CAFOD’s Manager for the Sheffield area, Angela Powell, has been working with the children this year. She said: “Children and young people have an incredibly important role to play in this campaign. Even if they can’t vote at the moment, it’s imperative for them to realize the importance of the part they can play in such campaigns and to get used to standing up for what they believe in. They are not just the voters of the future, but the leaders.”
The efforts of the St Thomas More group come in the lead-up to the G8 summit, which is to be held in the UK in June. The Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign, of which CAFOD is a founder member, is bringing together more than 200 development and faith-based organisations to call for action to tackle global hunger when G8 leaders meet in Northern Ireland on June 17 and 18. Supporters from all over the country are planning to come together for a mass mobilisation in Hyde Park on June 8.
As well as meeting the Prime Minister on 6 June, they schoolchildren will also take part in a workshop to create a huge artwork for the Big IF G8 Rally in Hyde Park on 8 June.
