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      Feasting and Fasting

      Objective: To reflect and pray.
      Duration: 5-10 minutes

      Food Art Game

      Objective: To have participants conceptualize their understanding of the issue of food sovereignty through art, which can help raise awareness of the issues in the larger community.
      Duration: 1-2 hours

      Food or Fuel

      Objective: To introduce participants to the struggles faced by small-scale farmers in the Global South.
      Duration: 60-90 minutes

      Food Quiz (Jeopardy Game)

      Objective: To introduce or review facts about Hunger, Food, and Development and Peace.
      Duration: 30 minutes

      Forced Migration and the Culture of Encounter

      Objective: To reflect on migration in our faith tradition and introduce the global Share the Journey campaign.
      Duration: 5-15 minutes

      Frisbee Toss

      Objective: To encourage participants to get to know one another and think about the environment.
      Duration: 15-20 minutes

      From Fire to Action

      Objective: Consider new eco-friendly habits we can adopt and take action in solidarity with human rights defenders in the Amazon
      Duration: 60-90 minutes

      Garbage Inventory

      Objective: To raise awareness of how much waste is generated on a daily basis in participants’ school, parish or community.
      Duration: 60 minutes

      Get Your Facts Right

      Objective: Get to know each other.
      Duration: 5-15 minutes

      Global Reality Meal

      Objective: To provide insight into hunger through an effective dramatization of the inequality of our world.
      Duration: 1-2 hours

      Going on a Picnic!

      Objective: To learn about the environmental impacts of food consumption patterns.
      Duration: 15-20 minutes

      Good Samaritan Story

      Objective: To learn about the Catholic Social Teaching principle of Solidarity and the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, through the parable of The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29-37).
      Duration: 30 minutes

      Grocery Store Challenge

      Objective: To see what options are available to us for local, sustainable or fair-trade foods, why these are important, and what changes we can make to support these options.
      Duration: 1-2 hours

      In the name of the Father… in the shoes of peoples in the Amazon

      Objective: Reflect on our impacts on the planet and develop greater awareness of the inequalities climate change produces
      Duration: 30-45 minutes

      Journalling

      Objective: Reflect on the day and what it means to attend THINKfast.
      Duration: 20-30 minutes

      Just Like Me

      Objective : To expand the circle of people for whom we have genuine concern and encourage connection with those on the other side of the world.
      Duration : 10-20 minutes

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