Act now to end world hunger

Hunger is unacceptable and defeatable. Please help and together we can end world hunger.

Yum! Brands' inaugural World Hunger Relief Week in October 2007 leveraged the power of its restaurants around the world to bring awareness, volunteerism and fundraising to the fight against global hunger with the United Nations World Food Programme.

Nearly 1,000,000 employees, franchisees and their families from Yum!, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's and A&W All-American Food volunteered millions of hours to aid hunger relief efforts in communities worldwide. Our global fundraising during World Hunger Relief Week also raised US$16,000,000 for the World Food Programme and other hunger relief organizations.

World Hunger Relief Week has three objectives:

Goal # 1: Raise worldwide awareness about the hunger problem * World Hunger Relief Week 2007 drove awareness wide and deep, reaching 1.5 billion people in 95% of the world's countries.

Goal #2: Inspire volunteerism * World Hunger Relief Week 2007 created the world's LARGEST volunteer movement, mobilizing approximately 1,000,000 employees who provided 4 million volunteer hours to aid hunger relief efforts in communities around the world (a $75,000,000 million value).

Goal #3: Raise cash to donate to the United Nations World Food Programme and other hunger relief agencies to save lives * $16,000,000 million was raised worldwide during World Hunger Relief Week for WFP and other hunger relief agencies around the globe.

Making an Impact and Saving Lives

By leveraging the company's global scale, 1.6 million people were saved from starvation. * 11,000,000 pounds of food were donated to homeless shelters and soup kitchens across the U.S. * The total value of monetary donations, food donations, awareness campaign, volunteer hours: $187,000,000.

Money that was raised for the World Food Programme through World Hunger Relief Week 2007 helped to: * Feed 8.2 million school meals to more than 41,000 children in Guatemala, El Salvador, Rwanda, Lesotho, India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia * Provide emergency funding to allow the school feeding program in Ethiopia to continue for another year, reaching 438,000 primary school age children * Provide Emergency Assistance to:
+ Bolivia -- provided 100,000 people affected by floods with fortified meals for one month.
+ Somalia -- provided 685,000 people affected by civil conflict with fortified meals for one month.
+ Pakistan -- provided 132,000 people affected by floods with fortified meals for one month
+ Peru -- provided 7,500 survivors of an earthquake with rice
+ Bangladesh -- provided 209,000 victims of Cyclone Sidr with fortified meals for one month

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