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'Walk the World' to eradicate hunger TNT International Express and WFP employees, family and friends in some 200 locations in more than 70 countries joined together on Sunday 20 June, 2004 in a unique "Walk the World" event to raise awareness of hunger and funds for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
The agency is dedicated to eradicating hunger around the globe and has launched a global school feeding campaign to ensure that the 300 million hungry children in the world are fed and educated. Forty thousand participants world-wide walked through various weather conditions to draw attention to the 800 million people in the world who do not have enough to eat despite there being enough food in the world for every man, woman and child to live healthy, productive lives. Across every continent, TNT employees joined WFP staff and celebrities to walk. In Sri Lanka, cricket's spin wizard and current world record holder for the highest number of test wickets, Muttiah Muralitharan led the walk with TNT and WFP's staff, family and friends numbering over 350. Walks began at 10am local time, with the event kicking off in Auckland, New Zealand, where the world's day begins and ends. As the world turned, TNT, its parent company TPG and WFP employees walked in 24 time zones in 24 hours. WFP Executive Director James T. Morris joined TNT and WFP employees in South Africa for their walk in Johannesburg. He said: "This is an extraordinary important day when the whole world comes together at every single time zone to walk to raise money to feed hungry children to make it possible for children to have meals at school. Leading the walk for TNT Sri Lanka along with Murali were, Managing Director of Ace Cargo (Pvt) Ltd., former rugby star Rohantha Peiris and Jeff Taft-Dick Country Director for WFP. Sri Lanka's walk started and ended at Independence Square having covered a route of approximately 5 km. In major cities across the globe, walkers marched past landmarks such as Tower Bridge in London, via Times Square in New York and across Prague's historic Charles Bridge. Twenty-four walks took place in Germany, ten in the UK and eight in Spain. |
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By walking in one single global Walk the World event. enough money was
raised to feed 25,000 children in WFP's School Feeding Programmes for one
school year. For an average of just 19 cents a day. WFP - the world's
largest humanitarian organisation - can feed a child in school for a year.
