MANY students at the Crookwell High School took part in the 40 Hour Famine this year, giving up food, talking, social media and the list goes on.

Four girls in Years 8 and 9 (Kaitlyn, Giselle, Gemma and Molly pictured above) “took Crookwell over with the 40 Hour Famine” and wish to thank the majority of the shops in the main street of Crookwell who sponsored the school during their 40 Hour Famine efforts.

Overall, this year it is expected that 300,000 individuals will took part in the famine and five years ago, this number was much the same.

Compared to 10 years ago, participants in the 40 Hour Famine now, are much more creative than 10 years ago.

Ten years ago the primary thing that people chose to give up was food, now the emphasis is for people to give up something that they would find it hard to live without, in order to replicate how a person in a developing country feels when they are forced to go without food.

Now, food counts for only 52% of what Australians give up.

Many young people choose to go without technology, television, social media, furniture, talking and even the use of their limbs in order to be able to better empathise with how a person in a developing country feels. Well done to all who completed the 40 hours of going without and raising funds for those who need it.