New Zealand’s largest youth fundraising event, the World Vision 40 Hour Famine, is back and bigger than ever, with tens of thousands of students across the country set to take on a challenge or go without something they rely on for 40 hours – and it’s all in the name of stopping the hunger pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

For 40 hours from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th June, about 90,000 young New Zealanders are expected to take part and raise much-needed funds for children and families in sub-Saharan Africa who are facing what could be the biggest hunger crisis of our lifetime.