by Linda St. Cyr, Contributing Writer
What will you be doing on May 29th, 2011? Will you be Walking for Hunger? The World Food Programme’s latest campaign to raise worldwide hunger awareness is called End Hunger: Walk the World. The campaign will help support WFP’s efforts in providing free school meals to 20 million poor children each year. Twenty-five cents is all it takes for one child to receive one nutritious meal a day.
Walk the World is an annual event that has been going on since 2003. The idea was inspired by the millions of poor children around the world who have to walk to school every day- often several kilometres away while hungry and barefoot. These children are determined to get an education to improve their future. Studies have shown that children who are hungry are less able to focus in school, are more irritable, and at higher risk for anxiety and depression.
The walk begins in Auckland, New Zealand and finishes in Samoa with participants in each of the world’s time zones walking five kilometres (3.1 miles) in a 24 hour relay. Walk the World events are being set up all over the world. You can find one by using the interactive Google map on WFP’s website by clicking on a foot icon. From there you can sign up to join the walk or you can even participate in Walk the World by joining WFP’s Virtual Walk on Facebook.
So far the country with the most walks is Germany with 31 scheduled walk events. The U.S. has only 10 scheduled walks with many happening between May 29th and June 4th. You can join in or even create your own walk by visiting Walk the World.
What will you be doing on May 29th, 2011? Will you be Walking for Hunger? The World Food Programme’s latest campaign to raise worldwide hunger awareness is called End Hunger: Walk the World. The campaign will help support WFP’s efforts in providing free school meals to 20 million poor children each year. Twenty-five cents is all it takes for one child to receive one nutritious meal a day.
Walk the World is an annual event that has been going on since 2003. The idea was inspired by the millions of poor children around the world who have to walk to school every day- often several kilometres away while hungry and barefoot. These children are determined to get an education to improve their future. Studies have shown that children who are hungry are less able to focus in school, are more irritable, and at higher risk for anxiety and depression.
The walk begins in Auckland, New Zealand and finishes in Samoa with participants in each of the world’s time zones walking five kilometres (3.1 miles) in a 24 hour relay. Walk the World events are being set up all over the world. You can find one by using the interactive Google map on WFP’s website by clicking on a foot icon. From there you can sign up to join the walk or you can even participate in Walk the World by joining WFP’s Virtual Walk on Facebook.
So far the country with the most walks is Germany with 31 scheduled walk events. The U.S. has only 10 scheduled walks with many happening between May 29th and June 4th. You can join in or even create your own walk by visiting Walk the World.
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