WFP RECEIVES GENEROUS DONATION FROM PIZZA HUT & TACO BELL FOR SENDONG SURVIVORS AND PROGRAMMES IN MINDANAO
MANILA – Through the Yum! Brands World Hunger Relief campaign,
Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in the Philippines have contributed Php 6.1
million (US$144,000) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for its activities in Mindanao. The donation will
support the on-going relief and early recovery operation for victims of Tropical
Storm Washi (Sendong) and school meals programme in conflict-affected areas of
central Mindanao.
About
155 Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants, which are part of the Yum! Brands
chain, collected donations throughout the country during a campaign from
November 2011 to January 2012. As part of the campaign, Taco Bell donated Php
10 to WFP from each purchase of a special meal dedicated to supporting school
meals programmes. Contributions were also collected in nationally distributed donation
boxes.
Customers
who donated Php 40 or more received a Christmas postcard featuring World Hunger
Relief Volunteer Ms. Venus Raj, who is a Department of Social Welfare and Development
Ambassador for Poor Children’s Rights and Welfare.
“We
are very proud of our Pizza Hut and Taco Bell employees, and thank our
customers whose efforts allowed us to exceed our campaign goals,” said Pizza
Hut and Taco Bell Philippines Chief Operating Officer Lars Peterson. “This
means more Tropical Storm Washi survivors will receive much-needed assistance, and
more school children will benefit from WFP school meal programmes.”
Last
year, Pizza Hut donated Php 4.5 million to WFP to support the school meals programme
in Central Mindanao, which provided 450,000 meals for 80,000 primary schoolchildren. School meals encourage children to attend
school and help them to learn better when they get there. By providing children
with the food they need to develop their physical and intellectual potential,
school meals act as an important investment in the next generation and help to
break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
The World Hunger Relief campaign raises both awareness and funds for WFP’s
most urgent hunger needs, especially school meals programmes. Since its launch
in 2007, World Hunger Relief has raised nearly US$85 million for WFP and other
hunger-fighting organizations, providing more than 350 million meals and saving
the lives of millions of people in 39 countries.
WFP is the world's largest
humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.
Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more
than 70 countries.
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/rss
Twitter:
@wfp_asia and @wfp_philippines and @wfp_media
Facebook: WFP Philippines
Special thanks to Flow Galindez of www.angsawariko.com
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