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Woman intends feeding 25,000 needy people on her 25th birthday
In a video posted on Twitter and Facebook, Zara Teni King (Teniolaking), whose birthday falls on July 8, said her commitment was based on an experience she had with someone who had no food and it really impacted her.
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According to her, she has decided that instead of having a big birthday bash, she will go out and give to people who do not have.
"The aim is to feed 25,000 people worldwide," she said.
She has also encourage people to join by preparing extra pack of food on July 8 for people who do not have enough to eat.
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To drive attention, she is encouraging people to post a video or picture of the food distribution under the hashtag #Operationfeed25k and your city (i.e #Accra or #Lagos).
She further explained that she wants people to experience what "I experienced on that day."
Later, she released a statement on her Facebook page further explaining why she is embarking on this humanitarian exercise.
She explained: "I was on my home after a long day of filming and since I had catered for the shoot I had some left over food. As I got to the station I met a person that was begging for money. I had no money on me so I asked if he would like food instead and he was overjoyed by this.
"Unfortunately as I served the food for him I realised the food has slightly gone off as it had been out for a while. To my surprise he was still excited to have the food and kept on thanking me profusely for offering him the food.
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"It was at that moment my heart broke because I knew deep down that if I had gotten home I would definitely have trashed the food.
"As I result I decided that instead of having a big party I would rather give to people that probably wouldn't have otherwise...."
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