This year, eating poor will help raise money for families in East Africa.

The third annual Rich Man Poor Man dinner, where only one person at a table of eight receives a rich man meal, was held Thursday at the University of Calgary, to raise awareness about poverty.

The majority of the money raised will go toward the Global Generation Foundation (GGF) ‘ a new global health project to support family medicine programs in Tanzania.

“The idea is to get well- qualified health professionals out in the rural areas where the vast majority of the population live,” said Dr. Christine Gibson, co-founded of the GGF and a clinical associate professor at the U of C.