On Monday, April 27, actress and humanitarian Mia Farrow Intends to be on a hunger strike for as long as she can to show support for the people of the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan. The 64-year-old UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador hopes to draw attention to the million people at risk of starvation in the region after the Sudanese government expelled 13 aid agencies last month.
What will your last meal be?
I don’t know. Probably a fist full of aging, chocolate Easter eggs.
Have you ever engaged in anything this physically challenging before?
Not even remotely.
Are you scared at all?
A little bit. I don’t know what it will do to me physically or to my mind. But that’s okay. More than a million people may die, what does it matter if I am scared or not.
How did you come up with the idea?
It came out of desperation, realizing that so many people faced starvation in Darfur. I thought what will it take, what is there left to do after all these years? I don’t want to sound presumptuous or even assume that anyone will care at all, but facing the grimmest of realities, I just don’t see how I can join the multitudes and watch a million people die. After 11 trips to the region, I have friends there and promises to keep. … It brought me to this point where I was exasperated beyond all description. We felt that as much as we adore President Obama he was very slow to appoint an envoy to Sudan.
