School holds Paupers' Banquet

Students and teachers from St John the Baptist, Woy Woy, joined Catholic schools across the Central Coast for a Paupers Banquet on Friday, October 24.

Both staff and students ate only a bread roll and an apple, while a small minority feasted in front of them.

"The banquet teaches that the world is not a fair place. It is full of inequities," organiser Michelle Perry said.

"Today 24,000 people will die of hunger.

"Some 113 million children, 60 per cent of whom are girls, have no access to education.

"An estimated 300,000 children under the age of 18 are currently participating in armed conflicts," she said.

"The aim is that children come away at the end of the day with a greater understanding of the problems of global world hunger and poverty.

"This may lead them to a stronger commitment to make our world a better place by the decisions we, the economically fortunate, make in our world," she said.

On the day, the children wore mufti with donations going to the Catholic Missions.

Press release, October 27