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At a news conference Monday, Brittney Ljungberg, the co-chair of the 2014 Poverty Pledge with some of the 40 Institut collégial Vincent Massey Collegiate students that have signed up to live on $3.96 a day for food from March 3-7. The same amount of money a single individual collecting Employment and Income Assistance would receive for their food budget. The Poverty Pledge is an activity that draws awareness to issues related to hunger and poverty. Brittney Ljungberg and her father Jon Ljungberg started the Poverty Pledge last year and Winnipeg Harvest invites anyone interested to participate to contact: Janelle Duerksen at janelle.duerksen@winnipegharvest.org, 204-982-3663. Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press Feb. 24 2014