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HUNGER BLOG: SUMMER FUN FOR A GOOD CAUSE

ROME - As school winds down for the summer, a new blog launched by the United Nations World Food Programme will keep kids active while giving them a chance to talk directly to aid workers battling on the frontline of some of the world’s hunger hotspots.

Following the global success of WFP’s educational video game “Food Force”, designed to teach 8-13 year olds about hunger and humanitarian aid work, WFP has now created “Joe’s blog” (www.food-force.com/blog), a web journal named after one of Food Force’s main characters.

In response to queries from Food Force players all over the world on how they could help, the new blog is a way to channel interest and a place to exchange ideas. Kids can also send their questions to the same WFP aid workers who post stories about their experiences and the reality of delivering life-saving food to those in need.

Food Force is a free internet download available from www.food-force.com. In the game’s six missions, players are faced with realistic challenges in their goal of saving lives and bringing food to a fictitious island community devastated by drought and civil war. Food Force has been played by at least four million people since its launch in April 2005, and is currently available in five languages.

The new blog is a place where the millions of kids who played Food Force and visited the site can form a global community focusing on hunger and other social issues. Hunger and malnutrition kill more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.



WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency: each year, we give food to an average of 90 million poor people to meet their nutritional needs, including 58 million hungry children, in at least 80 of the world's poorest countries. WFP -- We Feed People.

WFP Global School Feeding Campaign – For just 19 US cents a day, you can help WFP give children in poor countries a healthy meal at school – a gift of hope for a brighter future.

Visit our website: www.wfp.org

WFP now provides RSS feeds to help journalists keep up with the latest press releases, videos and photos as they are published on WFP.org. For more details see: http://www.wfp.org/english/?n=999

For more information please contact (email address: firstname.lastname@wfp.org):
Silke Buhr, WFP/Rome, Tel. +39-06-65132198
Brenda Barton, Deputy Director of Communications, WFP/Rome, Tel. +39-06-65132602, Cell. +39-3472582217
Gregory Barrow, WFP/London, Tel. +44-20-72409001, Cell. +44-7968-008474
Christiane Berthiaume, WFP/Geneva, Tel. +41-22-9178564, Cell. +41-792857304
Trevor Rowe, WFP/New York, Tel. +1-212-9635196, Cell. +1-6468241112, rowe@un.org
Jennifer Parmelee, WFP/Washington, Tel. +1-202-6530010 ext. 1149, Mob. +1-202-4223383