WFPWHAT DOES WFP DO?
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide. Every year, WFP feeds an average of 90 million people in more than 70 countries.
One of WFP’s projects is the school meals programme, which provides a free school lunch or snack to poor children in school. The concept is simple: food attracts hungry children to school, and they get an education that can help them break out of the cycle of hunger and poverty. This is especially important for girls, who are the first to be kept at home in poor families. For many parents, these meals are a reason for sending their children to school rather than out to work. It only costs WFP 20 Euro cents to provide a child with a nourishing meal at school.
Hunger is the greatest threat to health worldwide. It claims more lives each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Over one billion people in the world are undernourished, most of them women and children. A third of all child deaths in the developing world are linked to undernutrition.
For more information about WFP visit www.wfp.org
WFP Italy and the Organizing Committee for the European Controllers Cup 2011 are proud to inform that, thanks to the generosity of all the participants, 4.080,00 Euros have been raised during the 2011 ECC events.
It takes just 0,20 cents of Euros to fill one of the Red Cups that WFP uses to give hungry kids regular school meals: thanks to the raised funds, WFP will provide 20.400 meals to poor schoolchildren, changing their life.
Because "Working together, we can build a world without hunger".
