The Young Chronicle: For Grade 3 October 22nd, 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 highlights and raises awareness regarding the worldwide problems and solutions of 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.
Many people were genuinely concerned with this cause and came forward and
spared some funds to feed those who are in need. There were also those also who
came out of their houses and praised the kids for the contribution they were making
to society by creating this awareness. After spending a few days for this project, trying to cover as many houses as possible, the kids managed to collect funds to help
about 25 families.
With these funds, AFHFT (Action for Humanity Foundation Trust), bought supplies
to feed 25 families. These were 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
helped us in cash or kind, to take this project forth we’d also like to thank a company
called ELAN Limited. They 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.
:Shared By Sangeeta Kumar, Vaibhav’s Mother.