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University Daily Kansan, July 17, 1985
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For 35 cyclists, the way to combat hunger around the world is to travel across the nation on two wheels. Their trip from San Francisco to Boston is...
CROSS- COUNTRY BIKE AID
Cyclists Fighting Hunger, a group of 35 bicyclists traveling from San Fransisco to Boston, ended their short stay in Lawrence early Saturday morning when they packed their gear into a moving truck and pedaled to their next stop, Raytown, Mo.
By Carol Stephenson Staff Reporter
Traveling across the United States may sound like the ideal way to enjoy summer vacation. However, for a group of 35 bicyclists, the 4,000-mile journey has been more than just a pye ride. It's been a way to communicate with people about the problem of worldwide hunger.
"We are the stary-eyed people who think the world can be changed." Tom Searcy, coordinator of the talk, said Friday. "After all, it was said that slavery would never end, but he said that there would never walk on the moon. All these things have happened. So we believe that hunner can end."
The cyclists stopped in Lawrence on Thursday and Friday to talk with people in the community about their trip, which began June 8 in San Francisco and will end Aug. 10 in Boston. On Saturday they invited
community members to share the ride to Raytown, Mo., their next stop on the trip.
Nancy Kail, Westport, Conn., said, "We're hoping to raise $50,000 to fund help development projects and to provide jobs for people on the issue of world hunger."
Most of the cyclists are members of the Harvard-Radcliffe student organization, Cyclists Fighting Hunger
Patty Miranda, Boston, heard about the trip from a girl at the residence hall where Miranda was living at Harvard, she said Saturday morning at sunrise before the group left for Raytown.
that we are concerned about issues outside our college campus."
"I felt that the project was important because there's been an attitude lately that college students are lazy and that they don't care about anything but themselves," Miranda said. "This is a way to show people
This is the third year that students from Boston have pedaled across the United States to combat worldwide hunger.
In 1983 the riders raised $80,000 from individuals and corporations and last year they raised $200,000. The money they raised was donated to several organizations such as Save the Children, which works throughout the world with health and nutrition programs, school, home instruction and programs to increase agricultural productivity
Other organizations that the money was sent to were Oxfam-America, which assists self-help projects in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, and Overseas Development Network, which is an organization that places money into a credit fund from which farmers
can borrow to improve their productivity.
Kail said, "Over the past months, the media have brought the problem of hunger to the eyes of the people by showing people starving to death in Ethiopia. But what people need to realize is that the problem of hunger doesn't stop when television shows showing people dying."
Seery said that few people actually starved to death, as in Ethiopia. Most, he said, are victims of disease related to malnutrition. For example, some patients in Africa suffer blindness because of a deficiency of Vitamin A, he said.
“It’s not a problem of not enough land or too many people.” Seery said. “Right now the world produces enough food for everyone to eat 3,000
Part of the problem is crop distribution.
"Countries are exporting their food when they should be using that food to feed their own people," he said.
"In Wichita we visited a food bank," Seery said. "The number of people coming there over the past few years has tripped, and it's not
And the United States doesn't escape the problem.
just alcohols or transients, but middle-income families who have to choose between heating and eating."
The cyclists said they weren't in favor of just giving short-term relief such as sending food to Ethiopia.
Deborah Kern, Westport, Conn. said the response from the communities had been amazing
"Lawrence has been the best experience so far," she said. "We broke up into small groups and went to churches and it was great because most of a rapper session People were supportive of us, and they really cared."
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