Several hundreds took part in the Walk-the-world event Sunday morning, walking five kilometres from the WFP head office in Addis Ababa. The Royal Norwegian Embassy is a supporter of the WFP and participated with nine staff members. Walk-the-world has become UN WFP’s most important global advocacy event.
The event is part of a larger advocacy and fundraising strategy consistent with WFP’s commitment to end child hunger and the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal to halve hunger by 2015. Yesterday, more than half a million people were expected to walk the world to fight child hunger: the event took place in over 50 countries and people crossed 24 time zones in 24 hours.
The money raised from pledges secured before the walks will support WFP’s global school feeding campaign which aims to ensure that every child has the opportunity to learn basic reading, writing and arthmetic. You can read more about the event and WFP’s work in Ethiopia by following the links to the right.