Workerants Charity Network Honors Farming and World Food Day
This year the theme is Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth and the goal of everyone celebrating is to raise awareness and make commitments that we will work towards a solution.
Online, October 14, 2014 (Newswire.com) - World Food Day is on October 16, 2014. First celebrated in 1979 in commemoration of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on October 16, 1945, the goal of World Food Day is to end hunger and malnutrition. This year the theme is Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth and the goal of everyone celebrating is to raise awareness and make commitments that people will work towards a solution.
The statistics listed on the World Food Day site are staggering.
· 805 million people, one in nine worldwide, live with chronic hunger.
· 60% of the hungry in the world are women.
· Almost 5 million children under the age of 5 die of malnutrition-related causes every year.
But there is hope. Already WorkerAnts Philanthropy is making inroads in countries around the world and in its own backyards. Wokerants Philanthropy just need to keep up the good work, expand where it can, and continue to create awareness of the huge need for easily accessible nutritious food. To that end a variety of organizations are holding special events for World Food Day. Groups like Oxfam America, Action Against Hunger and of course the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
In honor of World Food Day, WorkerAnts.com is dedicating October to the incredible work people do to create a culture of healthy eating, biodiversity and sustainable agriculture. They will be exploring examples of non-profit organizations that are not only contributing to these goals, but are also serving the needy in their communities. These topics will be the focus of a series of articles on the site, tweets, Facebook posts and visits to volunteer organizations. Their goal is to raise awareness of how agriculture affects you, your community and others in the world.
WorkerAnts is inviting people to join them this month to have an open dialogue, and they have many social networking tools to help aid the conversation. Workerant Users can chat with like-minded activists and concerned citizens from their personal Backyard page or by starting a Colony dedicated to an agriculture topic close to their heart: like nutrition, eating vegan, community farms, etc. Users can also write a review on WorkerAnts.com in support of their favorite urban agriculture organization or suggest charitable organizations to others.
The purpose of this Chaity Network is to connect charities, volunteers and activists. To create a place where people can collaborate, share best practices, and see hope in the variety of ways people around the world are striving to make this world a better place. They give people a place to be heard.
All statistics taken directly from the World Food Day USA site at:
worldfooddayusa.org/what-is-wfd