Yesterday I visited the 5th grade class at the John Foster Dulles Elementary School in Cincinnati. The kids there have been playing a ton of FreeRice this school year.
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Got milk? School children in Yemen do
Children in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, are drinking milk at school thanks to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). It’s a pilot school feeding program for around 100 students. In addition to the milk, the children receive fortified date biscuits.
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Warnings of starvation in the Central African Republic
People are facing starvation in the Central African Republic. Parts of the country have reached what is called a phase 4 hunger emergency.
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App that fights world hunger claims award
Charity Miles, the free app that lets you run, walk or bike to feed the hungry, claimed its Webby Award. The Webbys are like the Oscars of the Internet.
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College runner surges over 100 miles to fight world hunger
Here is an update on NCAA cross country runner Amanda Shelby of the College of Mount St. Joseph. Earlier this year I featured Amanda on the Huffington Post and at Examiner.
Amanda has been piling up the miles in her comeback training for next season. She has already passed over 100 Charity Miles helping the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the largest hunger relief organization.
Charity Miles is the free app where you run, walk or bike to raise money for different causes. The donations are paid for by corporate sponsors including Lifeway Foods and Humana.
The donations generated by Amanda for WFP are well over 100 meals. So just picture a few classrooms in a developing country with a little over 30 kids each. It could be in Afghanistan, Mali, Haiti, South Sudan, or even the Middle East. Each child would receive a school meal for the day because of those donations. In impoverished countries that sometimes is their only meal of the day. So imagine if Amanda’s donations were duplicated among all cross country runners.
Amanda has also done Charity Miles workouts for Feeding America and a significant number for the ASPCA. She has helped 3 charities so far with her offseason workouts. Amanda also helped coordinate a Charity Miles community walk at the college called Mount Miles.
Check out the Charity Miles free app at www.charitymiles.org and you too can help out WFP and other causes.
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UN’s food agency responding to Balkans flood emergency
As massive flooding is striking Serbia, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is responding with emergency aid. WFP said today it has airlifted water tanks, generators, inflatable boats and other supplies to the disaster areas.
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Syrians facing war, hunger and now drought
As the war in Syria continues, so does the food shortages. Syrians continue to be blocked from receiving food and other life-saving supplies because of the fighting between Assad’s government and rebel groups.
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Hunger worsens in South Sudan as peace deal reached
As a peace deal has been reached in South Sudan‘s conflict, there are also alarming reports of a worsening hunger crisis. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today that civilians in areas isolated by conflict are facing severe hunger.
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Hunger fighting app wins Webby Award
Charity Miles, the hunger fighting app, has won a prestigious Webby award. The Webbys are “the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.”
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Low funding harms Central African Republic famine relief
A new United Nations report reveals that low funding is harming efforts to feed war victims in the Central African Republic. Only 38 percent of funding has been obtained for feeding at least 1.25 million people. This as famine conditions rapidly develop in the impoverished country.
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