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An Oakville woman is trying to get students to across Ontario to stop eating for 30 hours. But Adrienne Stewart‘s main goal isn‘t to get the students to lose weight. Rather, her goal is to raise awareness and funds for fighting poverty and famine in thirdâ€"world countries. As a World Vision volunteer, Stewart is travelling throughout Ontario â€" and would go across Canada, if necessary â€" to tell high school students about the organizaâ€" tion‘s annual worldâ€"wide 30â€"Hour Famine fundraiser on Feb. 19th. So far, Stewart, who recently returned from working in a Kenyan refugee camp, is encouraged by the students‘ reception to the 30â€"Hour Famine. "The teacher was so excited by the response in two classes I spoke to that she asked me to stay to speak to another class," she said of a recent hich school visit. She told students at a high school in Uxbridge recently that the annual 30â€"Hour Famine, slated for Feb. 19th and 20th, expects to raise $2.5 million from participants who will go hungry to identify with hungry people around the world. Last year, the event brought in $2 million which helped pay for projects in southeastern Africa where 16 counâ€" tries are experiencing the worst droucht in their histories. Students asked to stop eating for a good cause Funds also support work in Asia and in South America as well as helping to meet the needs of street PUD kids in Canada through a program in downtown Toronto. During their fast, 30â€"Hour Famine participants hold discusâ€" sions and watch videos to learn about the issues behind poverty. They may drink fruit juices "to keep up the electrolyte level" in the body, said Stewart. "Before they started the project (in 1972), World Vision consulted some 30 doctors to ensure that this is not detrimental to health," she said. "Those with medical problems like diabetes probably shouldn‘t participate but the doctors deterâ€" mined that healthy people aren‘t at risk." Stewart learned firstâ€"hand about the poverty of Africa when she and her husband, Martin, worked in refugee camps for 3 1/2 weeks. The Oakville Museum starts off Heritage Week with the annual celebration â€" Heritage Day â€" on Sunday, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Heritage Day at the Oakville Museum will focus on the Heritage Canada theme "300 Years of Postal Communications in Canada". A casual afternoon of various stamp displays and children‘s activities relating to postal history will take place. Oakville Museum kicks off Heritage Week on Sunday Displays will include those of private stamp collecâ€" They returned on Jan. 24th. with pictures, slides and educational posters they had used to teach the illiterate about hygiene. tors, and the collections of Grade 5 students from W.H. Morden Public School. Children‘s activities will include writing with a quill pen, sealing the letter with sealing wax, making an envelope, and designing a stamp. Regular admission will apply for this funâ€"filled Heritage Day celebration which salutes 300 years of Canadian Postal History. For more information, phone Oakville Museum at 845â€"3541. WHAT ARE You TWO POING 2 ; "The kids asked a lot of quesâ€" tions and if they could get involved," she said. "It was really encouraging." For more information on the 30â€" Hour Famine, call 1â€"800â€"387â€"8080 ("ate nothing, ate nothing). by Steve Nease