The search for 'Hunger Busting Bloggers'

Image: With the support of ActionAid and Bawodene Saccos this women's group set up a poultry farm in Bawodene village, Tanzania.

Living in Australia, one of the richest countries in the world, it is hard to imagine what it would be like not to be able to feed your children.

That’s why ActionAid Australia has launched a competition for one Australian to become our Hunger Busting Blogger with the task of helping all of us better understand what it would be like to live with hunger and, more importantly, what can be done to end it.

The winner will participate in an ActionAid Activista organised blogger training program to be held in Tanzania in July, where participants from 15 countries will connect with communities that ActionAid works with, with each other and will learn the secrets of blogging.

Check out nominations blog at http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/activista/ and please comment on the great nominations we have received so far.

If you are an Australian woman with connection to the land - why not nominate yourself?

Australia as a country has a key role to play internationally in changing the situation for the one sixth of the world’s population that goes hungry.

On return to Australia the Hunger Busting blogger will blog for ActionAid about what local communities do to cope with the food crisis and what they need us to do here in Australia to put pressure on our own government to do more.

The competition is one element of a campaign here in Australia that urges Prime Minister Julia Gillard to show leadership when the G20 countries get together in November 2011 to decide how to tackle the global food crisis. So far, much has been promised, but few of those promises have come through.