{"id":1700,"date":"2018-06-05T17:36:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T17:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2018-06-05T17:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T17:37:22","slug":"music-for-world-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/06\/05\/music-for-world-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Music For World Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHunger has been a prevalent topic in this course.\u00a0 Over the last 10 weeks we\u2019ve seen plenty of examples of how hunger effects people across the world (The hungry planet, Kenyan farmers eating grasshoppers in off seasons, King Corn, etc.) \u00a0World hunger is a big problem and initially our group wasn\u2019t sure how the 6 of us were supposed to help that.\u00a0 Our group decided that local issues play into these larger global issues so to do our part, we needed to help hunger local to us.<\/p>\n

For this group action project my group went through a number of ideas for what we could do, but in the end decided on doing a sort of benefit concert.\u00a0 Our plan was to host a few local Seattle bands at a venue close to the UW campus.\u00a0 Guests could pay for their admission or they could donate a number of non-perishable foods.\u00a0 The money from those who chose to pay would be donated to OxFam which is a larger group that works to fight world hunger and the non-perishable foods would be donated to nearby food bank.\u00a0 There was a lot to be learned in this project because neither myself nor any of my group members had ever planned an event like this before.\u00a0 Because of this there were a number of humps in the road along the way that we had to problem solve<\/p>\n

For me, this project pointed out the realities of working with a large number of people.\u00a0 I\u2019ve\u00a0worked on my fair share of group projects but never a project of this size and definitely not with a group of 5 other people.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t impossible but it also was not easy to keep everyone on the same page at all times since our group meetings unfortunately never had every group member present.\u00a0 However, this gave us a more \u201creal world\u201d application for all of the problem solving and organization our project required.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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