The Young Chronicle: For 4th Graders October 21st, 2015 | Page 2

World Food Day
World Food Day (WFD) is celebrated on October 16,
every year.
World food day is a day of action against hunger. People around the world on this day (16 October) commit
to end hunger. This day was first established on 1979
and is being celebrated ever since. The official goal of
World food day is to "heighten public awareness of the
world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the
struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty."
Every year there is a theme for World food day. This year the theme for the day
is “Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition”. The
theme this year highlights and raises awareness regarding the worldwide problems
and solutions of food security and ridding the world of hunger. The World food day
is also about raising awareness and calling for changes to the agriculture and food
supply systems.
Keeping this in mind Action for Humanity Foundation Trust (AFHFT a registered
NGO) with help from its project team of kids from “Things by Kids For Kids” took
the initiative of going house to house in DLF Phase 1 to create awareness amongst
the society regarding this special day. The founder of this project Vaibhav Kumar (11
years), his sister Tanisha (9 years) and Shoarya Bhel (11 years), gave up their play
time and happily volunteered to create this awareness and pledged to help the under
privileged people near their society.
Amongst the public of DLF Ph-1 were people who were genuinely concerned with
this cause and came forward to show their concern by giving funds to feed those who
are in need. There were those also who came out of their houses and praised the kids
for the contribution they were making in the society by creating this awareness.
After spending a few days into this project trying to cover as many houses as possible they managed to collect funds as to help about 25 families.
So, AFHFT (Action for Humanity Foundation Trust), bought supplies to feed 25
families which will be distributed to the needy poor people who have very low income on 16th October.
The project was successful and before we end we thank all the supporters who supported us in cash or kind to take this project forth and also a company called ELAN
Limited, who trusted our initiative and helped us generously.
The objective of this day is to understand the importance of food and it’s a learning
in every sphere as small as it may be, so lets start at home by teaching our family
members, kids, workers, & helpers not to waste food as food wasted can feed those
who are dying of hunger.
Written By Sangeeta Kumar