Friends, family and community members are encouraged to sponsor someone, who then fasts for a day.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9585929/ramadan-challenge-fundraiser-kingston/

People may do complete or partial fasts or just give up their favorite foods for a certain period of time.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/us/why-the-religious-fast-for-ramadan-lent-and-other-holy-days/article_2520e807-7065-5498-88fb-87eeacaaffcb.html

Rising food prices are already affecting how Muslims are breaking their fasts, and with depleting land and energy resources and the effects of climate change, this is likely to get worse in the future.

Source: https://www.africanews.it/english/somali-refugees-struggle-during-ramadan-as-drought-drives-further-need/

Some of his famous fasts include the fasts he undertook in of the violence between Hindus and Muslims in Calcutta in 1947 and his fast in protest of the communal violence in Delhi in 1948.

Source: https://worldcrunch.com/this-happened/gandhi-fasting-photograph

Some of his famous fasts include the fasts he undertook in of the violence between Hindus and Muslims in Calcutta in 1947 and his fast in protest of the communal violence in Delhi in 1948.

Source: https://worldcrunch.com/this-happened/gandhi-fasting-photograph