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Jetstar supports the 40 Hour Famine
Starting tonight at 8 pm, Jetstar will join the 300,000 Australians on the 40 Hour Famine, by making a donation equivalent to all profits from any inflight food and beverage sales for 40 hours to World Vision and the StarKids program.
World Visions’ 40 Hour Famine, now in its 33rd year, has become an institution with Australian school children who are eager to make a difference in the world.
In recent years, the 40 Hour Famine options have expanded, allowing people to give up their mobile phone, iPods, furniture, technology or something else that means a lot to them.
Jetstar, as a strategic partner of World Vision, will be getting into the spirit by making a donation equivalent to all profits from any inflight food and beverage sales on all of its 1,100 daily domestic and international flights for the 40 hours of the famine.
Jetstar and World Vision earlier this year announced the strategic partnership that has borne the “StarKids” program, which aims to raise funds for community based projects in key Jetstar international destinations such as Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand as well as domestic projects in Australia.
Jetstar Chief Executive Alan Joyce said the 40 Hour Famine was an important start to the partnership, adding, “Our partnership with World Vision is the most significant community partnership Jetstar has ever entered and the 40 Hour Famine is just one way we as an organisation will be contributing to helping assist ease the world’s poverty.”
“To raise funds for the StarKids program, we will be soon announcing different fundraising initiatives which will help us reach our ambitious but achievable goal of $3 million in three years,” he said.
World Vision Chief Executive Tim Costello said Jetstar’s participation in the 40 Hour Famine was an important step in the event’s development.
“Families, schools and communities have been supporting the 40 Hour Famine for years. It’s great to see Jetstar expanding that support into the business community,” Mr Costello said.
Jetstar passengers on the 40 Hour Famine in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast and Christchurch will have barley sugars available at check-in.
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