WFP,TNT fight malnutrition through walk

WFP,TNT fight malnutrition through walk

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

More than 1,500 people took part in the Fight Hunger-Walk the
World 2005 held on Sunday by the World Food Program (WFP) and
multinational logistics company TNT, to raise Rp 250 million to
fight hunger and malnutrition in Indonesia.

The walk, which was held at Ragunan Zoo in South Jakarta from
8 a.m. to 10 a.m., was part of a global walk carried out on the
same day in over 200 cities in 90 countries.

The participants, many of whom were WFP and TNT staff members
and their families, paid Rp 20,000 (US$2.1) as a contribution
toward the WFP's Global School Feeding Campaign.

The campaign aims to provide children with hygienically
prepared meals through their schools, to encourage them to keep
studying.

Today, the campaign has reached 400,000 children across the
country, including those who survived the tsunami and earthquakes
in Aceh and North Sumatra provinces.

The walk was first held in 2003 in 10 Asian countries,
including at the Great Wall of China.

Last year's Walk the World involved participants from 72
countries.

This year, it is hoped that over US$2.5 million can be raised
for the Global School Feeding campaign. (006)