Fight Hunger was a global initiative based in
Rome, Italy
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus ( legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
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, that called for the end of child hunger by 2015. It was organised by the
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme; it, Programma alimentare mondiale; es, Programa Mundial de Alimentos; ar, برنامج الأغذية العالمي, translit=barnamaj al'aghdhiat alealami; russian: Всемирная продовольствен� ...
and its partners. Fight Hunger is closely linked with the
UN Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 that had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millenn ...
, most specifically Goal #1: to halve the number of people suffering from poverty and hunger by 2015. There were almost 870 million hungry people in the world in 2010–2012, many of them children.
Fight Hunger also claimed that every time a site visitor clicked the ''Click to Feed a Child'' link, sponsors donated US$0.19 to the
UN World Food Programme, providing one meal to a child.
The most significant event of Fight Hunger was Walk the World, a global day of advocacy and fundraising. On 21 May 2006, more than 760,000 people walked in 420 locations in 118 different countries to call for the end of child hunger. Walk the World was first held in 2003.
References
External links
FightHunger.org- Official site of the campaign to end child hunger by 2015
World Food ProgrammeVideo about World Hunger Fair at Georgetown made by The People Speak
Click-to-donate sites
World Food Programme
Defunct websites
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