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Universities Fighting World Hunger

About Me

Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH) represents a campus best practice in international programming. It creates a learning environment where intellectual discovery and social responsibility converge in pursuit of a sustainable world – a world that protects our natural environment and enhances human health and well-being for present and future generations. Our Vision: In partnership with the UN World Food Programme, Universities Fighting World Hunger will be the catalyst mobilizing universities across the nation and around the globe to make fighting hunger a core value of higher education institutions worldwide.Our Mission: The mission is to create an academic hunger model that is suitable for replication or adaptation by universities in the US and abroad.Our Goal: The founding goal is to develop and implement an action agenda for students and faculty that encompasses* hunger awareness and consciousness-raising * fundraising * advocacy * academic initiativesleading to a university community that is fully engaged in the effort to eliminate world hunger.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Josette Sheeran, WFP Executive Director

My Blog

Auburn University students win Hungerbytes Competition

Hello all,Auburn University students won the Hungerbytes competition and will now be representing Auburn with the WFP in Ethiopia! Below is the link to the press release.http://www.wfp.org/english/?M...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:27:00 GMT

Hungerbytes video

Hello all, Aubur n Unive rsity stude nts, Emma Thomp son, Colli n Bulte r, and Meri Kate Pergu son' s hunge r aware ness video entit led, " Time is Runni ng Out, " is one of the final five vi...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:45:00 GMT

Auburn University War on Hunger Committee of 19 CHALLENGE!

Members of the Auburn University War on Hunger Committee of 19 are challenging Auburn students to join in a Hunger March to the Capitol steps in Montgomery the weekend of October 17-19. The 60 mile ma...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:38:00 GMT

WFP Executive Director appearing on David Letterman

Hello everyone! Just wanted to let you know that the WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran is appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman TONIGHT, September 30, at 11:30 EDT/PST. The show will br...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:32:00 GMT

Bulletin Template

Below you will find a Bulletin template that you can send out from your myspace page.Please e-mail any questions that you have regarding the use of this bulletin template to: [email protected]...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:15:00 GMT

E-mail to Friends of UFWH

Dear Students, Faculty, and Administrators:I am writing again to make sure you received my recent e-mail introducing myself as your contact person for Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH) and to ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:07:00 GMT