http://www.walkethiopia2008.org Walk the World has, in a few short years, become the United Nations World Food Programme’s foremost, global advocacy event. Walk the World is part of a larger advocacy and fundraising WFP corporate strategy consistent with WFP’s commitment to end child hunger and the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal to halve hunger by 2015. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Tue, 20 May 2008 00:39:45 +0300 Walk the World has, in a few short years, become the United Nations World Food Programme’s foremost, global advocacy event. Walk the World is part of a larger advocacy and fundraising WFP corporate strategy consistent with WFP’s commitment to end child hunger and the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal to halve hunger by 2015.http://www.walkethiopia2008.org/walk_the_world_the_vision.htmTue, 20 May 2008 00:39:45 +0300To help highlight the serious issue of global child hunger http://www.walkethiopia2008.org/why_walk.htmTue, 20 May 2008 00:39:44 +0300Hunger is the biggest threat to health. Last year, more people died due to hunger and malnutrition, than from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. http://www.walkethiopia2008.org/did_you_know_facts.htmTue, 20 May 2008 00:39:44 +0300School feeding is a crucial tool in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals and the Government of Ethiopia’s Education Sector Development Plan II’s aims of increasing primary school enrolment and promoting gender equality. http://www.walkethiopia2008.org/school_feeding_in_ethiopia.htmTue, 20 May 2008 00:39:44 +0300The walking route in Addis Ababahttp://www.walkethiopia2008.org/walking_route_map.htmTue, 20 May 2008 00:39:22 +0300It takes just 25 US cents to fill one of the "Red Cups" that the World Food Programme uses to give hungry children a regular school meal of porridge, rice or beans. US$15 would feed 10 children for a week. Help us "Fill the Cup" by making an online donation now. http://www.walkethiopia2008.org/fill_the_cup_wfp.htmTue, 20 May 2008 00:39:21 +0300Clicks on the FreeRice vocabulary game have already translated into WFP food rations for over 20,000 refugees from Myanmar who are sheltering in Bangladesh. Pregnant women in Cambodia, schoolchildren in Uganda and Bhutanese refugees in Nepal are also receiving rice thanks to the award-winning site. http://www.walkethiopia2008.org/free_rice.htmTue, 20 May 2008 00:39:21 +0300Tel + 251 11 5 51 51 88 P.O.Box 25584 code 1000 Addis Ababa Donate@Walkethiopia2008.orghttp://www.walkethiopia2008.org/contact.htmTue, 20 May 2008 00:39:21 +0300Addis Millennium, Ethiopian Airlines, Al Saide Trading, Hilton Addis, Edna Mallhttp://www.Addismillennium.comTue, 20 May 2008 00:39:20 +0300