The World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed various sectors to participate in a walk being organised on 21 May 2006, starting at 8:00 am from the Dasrath Stadium to the Patan Darbar Square in order to support and raise fund for Nepali children suffering from hunger.
The WFP organizing a press conference in the capital Monday called to support the Walk that aims to serve more than two million children in Nepal facing chronic hunger everyday and more than one million children who have been unable to go to school due to lack of food.
Hundred of thousands of people across the globe are expected to attend the Walk the World to Fight Child Hunger on that day.
According to the WFP, around 12 million people in Nepal face hunger on a daily basis, which is approximately 47 percent of the total population among which 2 million are children.
Addressing the program country representative of the WFP, Jean Pierre deMargeri, said the WFP helps fight hunger, which is one of the root causes of poverty. “WFP takes education as a major tool to reducing poverty,” he added.
The WFP is directed by the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) set by the United Nations (UN) that targets to reduce the hungry population throughout the world by 50 percent till 2015.
The WFP has appointed the famous comedian duo of MAHA jodi as its goodwill ambassadors to support the program.
Addressing the program goodwill ambassador Madan Krishna Shrestha said the country, currently in the phase of democratic transformation, needs food that can be an effective means to provide education for poor children as the education is a tool for democratic practice.
Similarly, addressing the meet Haribamsha Acharya in his trademark humorous lines thanked the WFP for granting them opportunity to serve for the humanitarian purpose.
Meanwhile, Mark Squirrel, a WFP official, is currently on an expedition to the Mount Everest hoping to scale it on the 21st May itself. His bid is aimed at raising awareness in the region about child hunger.
Likewise, a popular Nepali rock band 1974 AD is all set up to perform at the Patan Durbar Square at the end of the Walk on 21st May.