‘Hunger games’ with a purpose? Thousands are playing for food in Bangladesh

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‘Hunger games’ with a purpose? Thousands are playing for food in Bangladesh

By Akanksha Sharma (CNN) — Well before the sun rises in Chapra, a small village in the northwest of Bangladesh, Mohammad Abdur Rouf is on his feet. He travels six miles to a neighboring village, where he joins hundreds of other people in line to play a carnival-style game. But instead of throwing darts at a wall of balloons or tossing rings at beer bottles, Abdur, 35, hits a small yellow ball repeatedly with a plastic putter. Try as he might, he…