BY Ian Dunn | February 1 | 
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Glasgow launch of anti-hunger campaign
The Enough Food For Everyone If… campaign launched in Glasgow last Wednesday with an exciting, fun filled event that still brought home the plight of the world’s hungriest.
The campaign has the backing of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) and Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow, and aims to put pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron and other world leaders to commit to ending global hunger at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland this year.
Musical performances gave the event an international feel to the proceedings before scores of Glaswegians paused on their lunch break to see a huge white 20-foot inflatable If, draped in a Saltire, unveiled on the steps in front of the Royal Concert Hall.
Lorraine Currie, SCIAF’s head of international development, said the campaign had the potential to make a huge difference.
“No one campaign is going to change everything, but step by step we can move towards a better, more just world,” she said. “This is not about hand outs, it’s about helping people so they can help themselves.”
She added that the campaign promoted key Catholic values.
—This story was reported in full in the February 1 print edition of the SCO
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