Helen Keller International Supports World Food Programme's Fight Hunger: Walk the World Rally

May 30, 2006 – More than forty staff members from Helen Keller International’s offices in Bangladesh and a smaller contingent from Cameroon joined hundreds of other supporters in the World Food Programme’s (WFP) rally Fight Hunger: Walk the World on May 21, 2006.

In Bangladesh, Mr. Choudhury Kamal Ibne Yousuf, Honourable Minister for Food and Disaster Management inaugurated the Rally as the Chief Guest. During their speeches Dr. John M. Powell, Deputy Executive Director of WFP, and Douglas Broderick, Country Representative of WFP, Bangladesh, expressed special thanks to HKI for the large numbers of walkers who participated. (See photo at right.) In Cameroon, the Ceremony was launched by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Walk the World is an an annual demonstration led by WFP and held across the globe. Hundreds of thousands of people participate in order to raise awareness about the plight of 300 million hungry children in this world, and to help reach the Millennium Development of ending child hunger by 2015. This year, more than 760,000 marchers from 118 countries at 420 locations participated in Walk the World.

Parvez Babul, Information Officer of HKI/Bangladesh summed up the experience by stating: “On behalf of HKI, we salute this humanitarian effort of WFP. We are proud to be part of their work, and to participate on this historic day.”

The Walk the World Rally in Cameroon