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TeleFood
is FAO's annual campaign of broadcasts, concerts and other events
dedicated to helping to reduce the number of hungry people in the
world. The campaign centres around the observance of World
Food Day, marking the founding of FAO on 16 October 1945. This
year’s slogan for TeleFood and World Food Day is: "Water:
Source of Food Security".
The aim of TeleFood is to reach out and raise awareness about world hunger and to mobilize resources for hundreds of hunger-fighting projects. TeleFood is one of the responses to the 1996 World Food Summit's call to action to eradicate hunger -- a call that will be repeated at the World Food Summit: five years later.
Many people support TeleFood. Some offer financial support, others participate in organizing TeleFood events. And hundreds of sponsors and celebrities, including renowned actors, singers and athletes, lend their voices and their time to TeleFood, to get its message out to the public.
Every year national, regional and international World Food Day and TeleFood events are organized around the world. All TeleFood events appeal to the generosity of those concerned about hunger in the world and all contributions go directly to grassroots development projects. These projects have one basic aim - to enable people to build lives free from hunger. The maximum cost of a project is US$10 000, and none of the money raised is diverted for administrative costs.
 There is more information available on the history of TeleFood and the fight against hunger.
Information by country.
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