Friends support IF campaign

Quakers join Big IF events in London and Belfast

From left to right, Clare Scott (Leicester) Laura Conyngham, Bridget Oliver, Michele Evenstar and Gerald Conyngham, (Exeter). | Photo: Photo: Zenith.

More than two hundred charities are supporting the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign. It urges world leaders, who gathered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, this week for the G8 conference, to tackle the problem of global hunger.  Friends travelled from all over Britain to attend the Big IF event in Hyde Park in London on Saturday 8 June and, in Northern Ireland, Quakers were among the eight thousand people at an event in Belfast’s Botanic Gardens organised by the IF campaign last weekend.

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