Hunger fast a sobering experience .
Menu Help Tips . A Churchville man survived on bread and water for a month in effort to bring attention to the hungry. He also dropped 14 pounds. Marcus has a sense of accomplishment in the wake of his fund-raising campaign to bring attention to the plight of the hungry. In addition, friends and occasionally strangers gave him donations or gave something to Philabundance, a Philadelphia-based organization dedicated to ending hunger and malnutrition.