WORLD FOOD PROGRAM TO ORGANIZE “FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER” ACTION

YEREVAN, JUNE 7. ARMINFO. Both the UN World Food Program (WFP) and the
TNT Organization on transportation of freight and mail announce on
conducting a procession with the aim to collect means for hungry
children in the world. The action will take place simultaneously in 90
countries. The PR specialist of the WFP Armenian office Marine Papyan
informed ARMINFO that everyone who wishes to contribute to this action
may be acquainted with details on or
Each visit to the site will
bring 19 American cents in favor of hungry children. The action
organizers plan to collect 2 mln euro or $2.5 mln. The WFP gives food
to 90 mln hungry children in 80 poor countries annually. To note, the
WFP has assisted to Armenia within the last 10-11 years; needy
families received more than $100 mln within this period. In 2005,
Armenia has already received $3.800 mln from the USA, $480.000 from
Sweden, $370.000 from Swiss, $163.000 from Netherlands and $43.382
from Canada on the WFP.