Second Life Joins Worldwide Effort to End Child Hunger

 

On Sunday, 13 May 2007, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and partners are teaming up to call for an end to child hunger.   Hundreds of thousands of people across the globe are expected to literally “Fight Hunger: Walk the World” to raise awareness and funds to assist the world's poorest children.

This year, for the first time, Walk the World will also take place in Second Life. The event will take place during 24 hours in and around the Pooley Auditorium in Borrowdale sim. On the screens at the Auditorium they will have live feeds from the real life walk from all over the world.

There will also be an opportunity to donate to help end child hunger in real life by donating in donation boxes surrounding the Auditorium.

WHO: Anybody in Second Life
WHEN: 13 May 2007
WHERE: Pooley auditorium, Borrowdale sim
SIGNUP: http://www.fighthunger.org/wtw07/2l/second_life

 

I'll certainly be catching up with Susanne and the Web team to find out what the results were.  So, stay tuned.

Comments

[Fight Hunger]

Thanks for blogging about our Second Life Walk!

Hope to see you all there 13 May!

Susanne at
FightHunger.org

[Fight Hunger]

Just to let you know, our Second Life walk is creating a buzz in the real life media! Here you find a clip form Associated Press (!), where the only specific walk mentioned is the Second Life walk!

Associated Press, 10 May 2007

Hundreds of thousands to march in global walk to fight child hunger

ROME_Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in a global walk on Sunday in a bid to end child hunger that will span most of the real world _ and even parts of the virtual world, a U.N. food agency said Thursday.
Marking its fifth anniversary, Walk the World will take place over a 24-hour period, starting in New Zealand, with marches covering an average 5 kilometers (3.1 miles), the U.N. World Food Program said in a statement.
Hundreds of marches have been planned across all continents and a virtual walk, along with live music events, will take place in the animated online world called Second Life.
"Every five seconds a child dies of hunger," said John M. Powell, the agency's deputy executive director. "It is an unacceptable reality that calls for all of us to speak out so as not to let indifference smother this tragedy."
Funds raised by the walk will go to WFP's Global School Feeding Program, which provides free school meals to more than 19 million children in developing countries, the Rome-based agency said.
Last year, Walk the World brought out 700,000 people in more than 100 countries to take part in 400 marches.