{"id":1176,"date":"2010-06-01T22:29:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2010-06-01T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:29:37","slug":"just-wondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/just-wondering\/","title":{"rendered":"Just wondering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zkFQ3w9VXNM&amp;feature=related\">Dare You to Move (don&#8217;t mind the typo)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zkFQ3w9VXNM&amp;feature=related\"><\/a>I am developing a hunger education event that will be similar to World Vision&#8217;s 30 Hour Famine. \u00a0I have been watching videos and exploring activities that are usually a part of these types of events and I find one of the recurring features a bit troubling. \u00a0So much of the multimedia has many pictures of emaciated, sick children. \u00a0Emotive music plays in the background as sometimes overwhelming statistics flash across the screen (even www.girleffect.org, an organization that frames the issues particularly well, wants you to imagine a girl in poverty with flies hovering around her). \u00a0Videos and images such as these seem to be popular, but are they really effective? \u00a0If so, what is it about them that draws people in? \u00a0Maybe you can answer for yourself&#8211;are these types of stories and images effective for you? \u00a0Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>For me, I struggle with them. \u00a0I wonder if the dignity and power of those who live in poverty is lost when we only see them as dying and sickly. \u00a0Is our ability to truly walk with someone inhibited when we only see their weakness? \u00a0Or are those images necessary to finally move us to action? \u00a0If so, what does that say about our motivations? \u00a0Let me know your thoughts (maybe I&#8217;ll give you a footnote in the new resource&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>-David Creech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dare You to Move (don&#8217;t mind the typo) I am developing a hunger education event that will be similar to World Vision&#8217;s 30 Hour Famine. \u00a0I have been watching videos and exploring activities that are usually a part of these types of events and I find one of the recurring features a bit troubling. \u00a0So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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