Promote your event

Here are some ideas you can use you can use to recruit and motivate group members, and to promote your 40 Hour Famine event.

• Place an article about your Famine Group in your school/church newsletter.
• Contact local newspapers in your area and ask them to do a story on your Famine Group/event.
• Ask local businesses to support your Famine event by donating prizes.
• Have competitions between classes/school houses, with prizes or points going towards class/house awards.
• Provide giveaways as incentives to sign up Group Members and get books back in time.
• Ask a teacher to promise to dye his/her hair if your Famine Group reaches its target.
• Contact sporting celebrities and ask them to come and kick off your Famine event.

The 40 Hour Famine is a community education and fundraising initiative of World Vision Australia.