Hundreds of people on Sunday attended the march of "End Hunger: Walk the world 2008" in Smart Village at Cairo's west suburbs as part of a global campaign to raise awareness and funds to feed poor children at school.
Wavering placards and banners, representatives from the UN Information Center in Cairo and World Food Program (WFP) Cairo Office as well as volunteers marched at the occasion of the International Children's Day inside Smart Village, one of the region's renowned business parks.
Maher Nasser, Director of the UN Information Center in Cairo, which is one of the initiator of the event, told Xinhua that the global event aims to raise funds to provide school meals to 59 million children worldwide who attend school belly-pinched every day, with the concentration in Africa.
"Africa is the priority although hunger is a global problem. This event will help raise the awareness of the effect of hunger on development and children, which was aggravated by the global food crisis," Nasser said, while deploring that the Millennium Development Goals have made little progress in Africa.
Jointly under the auspices of the Egyptian First Lady Suzanne Mubarak in Cairo, the "End Hunger: Walk the world 2008" global event took place in 70 countries around the world, including 22 countries where hungry children receive WFP school meals, according to the WFP.
Initiated in Asia in 2003, the global event mobilized approximately 1 million participants over the past five years and raised funds to feed over 100,00 children in school for one year.
The UN is Egypt's partner in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals, an eight-point list of pledges made in 2000, including a vow to cut in half the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide by 2015 and to make progress in areas such as education, maternal health, child mortality, water and disease control.
Source:Xinhua
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