American Community School food fair raises hunger awareness.Byline: Tania
More precisely, there are several levels of organization: the Tabar (tribe) is subdivided into kinship groups each of which is a Khel. Summary: In the yard of the American Community School The American Community School is an international school in Amman, the capital of Jordan. It is an independent, coeducational day school which offers an American educational program from preschool (3 years old) through grade 12 for students of all nationalities. (ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ) in Beirut Beirut (bār  t`), Arab. Bayrut, Fr. Beyrouth, city (1996 est. pop. 1,200,000), W Lebanon, capital of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Lebanon Mts. , where a makeshift souk was created, students spent Thursday Thursday: see week. promoting local foods to raise awareness about what the United Nations
has called World Food Day. The event was organized by Zalfa Farah and
Celine Gebeyli, two senior students at ACS who collaborated with Souk
al-Tayeb.
BEIRUT: In the yard of the American Community School (ACS) in Beirut, where a makeshift souk was created, students spent Thursday promoting local foods to raise awareness about what the United Nations has called World Food Day. The event was organized by Zalfa Farah and Celine Gebeyli, two senior students at ACS who collaborated with Souk al-Tayeb, a Lebanese organization which promotes organic and local food production, to educate people of all ages about hunger in the world. "It's not that there is not enough food, it's that food is not distributed properly," explained Farah, wearing a T-shirt that the students made with the slogan A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. Slogans vary from the written and the visual to the chanted and the vulgar. "got food?" The t-shirts were made to raise money for one local and one international organization that will work toward similar goals. Part of the amount to be raised will go to help people whose organic farms were destroyed by the forest fires This is a list of notorious forest fires: North America Year Size Name Area Notes 1825 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km²) Miramichi Fire New Brunswick Killed 160 people. that broke out on Monday in the Chouf region of Dibbiyeh. Even though the project is local, it also has an international vision. Environmental science and biology teacher Renee Lodsi believes it is important to combat global poverty and wants to start right here in Lebanon. She cites two main reasons for global poverty - climate change, which makes it difficult for farmers to maintain crops, and the increase in cashcrops around the world. Cashcrops are when farmers produce crops such as tobacco and cotton for international multinational corporations
Local crops in Lebanon have not yet been patented by companies such as Monsanto, but Lodsi fears that if Lebanon joins the World Trade Organization, as the country's leaders are attempting to do, "it will dramatically change our agriculture," she said.Aa People will have to pay a corporation to farm a local crop, which could affect organic and local producers significantly. Organizers of the event are therefore trying to educate all people on the importance of buying locally and strengthening the Lebanese economy in order to attempt to bridge the gap between the rich and poor. "In Lebanon there are people from the extreme high class to the extreme low class," Gebeyli said. "And everyone should be aware this." People just need to be informed, explained Tania Jaroudi, a student at the school. "The food that we eat is not always organic but to buy from local farmers makes it better for the Lebanese in general." Copyright 2008, The Daily Star. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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