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Taking part in global hunger walk
The Egyptian Gazette Published in The Egyptian Gazette on 03 - 06 - 2010

THE UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Egypt is organising a symbolic walk to raise awareness about the organisation's school feeding projects.
The walk, part of WFP global initiative "Walk the World", will take place on Sunday at 6:30pm at the American University in Cairo (AUC) Kattameya campus.
Egypt's “Walk the World” is under the auspices of First Lady Suzanne Mubarak and more than 1,000 people including Government officials and celebrities are expected to join the walk. WFP Ambassadors Against Hunger Hend Sabry and Mahmoud Yassin are also expected to take part in this year's walk as well as famous football player Mohamed Abu Treika.
The walk, taking part in Egypt for the 8th year running, will be followed by music, entertainment and refreshments. Popular Egyptian band "Massar Egbari"will perform a collection of their alternative songs; a mix of Oriental Egyptian music with rock, jazz and blues beats.
Many sponsors including private sector companies have already expressed their generous interest to contribute to the event including Knorr, PepsiCo, Vodafone, Middle East Courier Services, Mars, Egypt Trade Food Industries and Bisco Misr, in addition to national air carrier EgyptAir, the Egyptian Junior Businessmen Association and Nile FM 104.2.
On the same day, tens of thousands of people will join WFP and its major corporate partners, TNT and Unilever and DSM in similar walks around the world. Last year 360,000 people walked in 210 locations, raising enough money to provide school meals for one year to more than 20 thousand children.
"End Hunger: Walk the World" will see people walking for hunger in more than 70 WFP member countries beginning in Auckland, New Zealand and finishing in Samoa.
This year, there is also an online walk at wfp.org/walktheweb. People are invited to make a donation online; each Euro or local currency equivalent is counted as a mile walked. The objective is to go the 25,000 miles around the world. Donors can upload a photo to join the crowd of walkers on the web page, and to show that they've taken a virtual step to end hunger.

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