TeleFood 2000 - events around the world
A TeleFood show was broadcast live from Parma, Italy
The TeleFood and World Food Day 2000 message "A Millennium Free from Hunger" was broadcast through television and radio programmes around the world

Here are a few examples of the events that took place in 2000:

  • In Spain, celebrities Francisco and José Luis Perales and the Italian singer Laura Pausini participated in a prime time fundraising show on Radio Televisión Española (RTVE). The show was also broadcast on RTVE’s website and rebroadcast to Latin-America.

  • The Italian network RaiDue broadcast a fundraising show live from Parma. And RaiUno broadcast a daily appeal in support of TeleFood, which culminated in a three-hour prime time television fund-raising event on 26 December.

  • Arab News Network (ANN) dedicated a two-hour live broadcast to TeleFood. During October, Arab Radio and Television (ART) aired four weekly broadcasts targeting youth, culminating in a special programme spotlighting TeleFood-funded projects.

  • A three-hour celebrity-studded television show was broadcast live from The State of Bahrain via satellite to the Arab-speaking world in November. This was Bahrain’s first celebration of World Food Day and TeleFood

  • In Japan Fuji TV broadcast a classical music concert with the Tohogakuen Orchestra conducted by the famous Maestro Myun-Wung Chung.

  • Tanzanian television broadcast several succesful TeleFood events featuring many celebrities, including South African singer Brenda Fassie

  • In addition to live broadcasts, a number of other television stations -- from BBC World to NHK in Japan to Ecuador's main TV channels -- dedicated a series of programmes to food security issues.

Many other activities also took place -- including children forming a human solidarity chain against hunger in Nicaragua, a fund-raising dinner in Chad and a question-and-answer programme on nutrition in Vietnam.

The generous and enthusiastic support from a wide variety of TeleFood partners -- private companies and institutions, governments and non-governmental organizations, radio and television broadcasters -- was instrumental in spreading the TeleFood 2000 message.

More about TeleFood 2000 partners and sponsors