Today is World Food Day, a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and informed, year-around action to alleviate hunger. Please watch this video from Mercy Corps and Tina Fey to get an understanding of how extensive world hunger really is.

Ideas in Action

Head over to the World Food Day website today and download their PDF “Ideas in Action” to find out how you can help. Getting started is simple:

• Learn more. Hunger is a multi-faceted problem, so there are many different ways to get to solutions.
• Find out what is being done at different levels to provide food security for all. Review the list of National WFD USA Sponsors. Many of the organizations have local chapters or offices in your area. Contact them for additional information or ideas.
• Talk with others about the issue of hunger and think of ways that you can involve the people your local community.
• Try something.
• Share your experience and ideas with others by sending information to the World Food Day National Coordinator’s office or submitting an event/activity to their website.

An Easy Way to “Do Good” Today

Now it’s your turn to “Do Good” today and help stamp out world hunger. And it’s easy. The Hunger Site and Click-to-Give have teamed up with sponsors around the world to make it easy for YOU to do something today to alleviate hunger around the world. Simply visit The Hunger Site and click the button that says “Click Here to Give”. it’s that simple! For every click you make, the site and their sponsors give 1.1 cups of food to a hungry person. And it’s FREE, no cost to you at all. To date, generous “clickers” have help to give over 657 MILLION cups of food to hungry people around the world. So please, head over to The Hunger Site, get involved, click to give, and “Do Good” today!