On “National World Hunger Day,” the “Committee of 19” and the Woman’s Resource Center combined efforts to raise awareness for hunger-related issues for “Line up. Stand up. Speak up…Against Hunger: A Women’s Issue.”

The Auburn University Women's Resource Center’s mission is “to serve as a centralized hub of information and resources for Auburn's campus on women's initiatives, programs, and issues.”

According to their Web site, the “Committee of 19 is the student organization leading the War on Hunger on our campus. Its name was derived from the daily cost of feeding a hungry school child in the developing world -- formerly 19¢, but has now increased to 25¢ per day.”

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The first-time event was held on Friday, and included about 70 students from both organizations.

Members lined up from 11 a.m. to 1 pm. along the Haley Concourse. Each student held a sign with hunger-related facts like “It only costs 25 cents a day to feed a child at school,” and “One in seven people in the world go to bed hungry every night.”

While walking to class, students could not help but notice the signs.

“It will help them become aware,” says Catherine Partain, member of the WRC. “It is little things like what we are doing that can make a difference.”

Emily Butler, representative of the College of Human Sciences for the “Committee of 19,” says the signs are a visual of actual people’s stories that suffer from hunger. Butler says this is a better way to influence people than simply passing out fliers.

“A person’s story has more of an impact than statistics and facts,” Butler says.

Greg Sims, from Atlanta, is a representative and hunger advocate from “Bread for the World”. He was invited to support the cause, and to create a way for Auburn students to be a part of the initiative. Sims plan was to create a “video postcard,” where students are filmed speaking about why they think it is important to fight hunger and poverty.

“It’s a concrete action that people can take,” Sims says.

He will take this video postcard to Senator Sessions and Senator Shelby to encourage them to cosponsor a bill “that would reform the way the U.S. would fight hunger and poverty,” Sims explains.

But why is hunger a woman’s issue? Lauren Wissert, from the WRC, says hunger affects woman more than men. In third-world countries, “if you give a man food, he will keep it for himself,” Wissert says. “A woman will give it to her child.”

Wissert explains that the “World Food Program” works in these countries to empower educate women. Men are typically in charge, but giving woman a voice will make a positive impact for the world.

“It will benefit the whole,” Wissert says.