Pizza Hut and Taco Bell recently turned over more than 4.5 million pesos for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support its school feeding programme in Mindanao. With advocate Diether Ocampo, the check was given in a ceremony this morning at SM Araneta's Pizza Hut branch.
Launched four months ago since November 2010, this is Pizza Hut and Taco Bell's fourth annual
World Hunger Relief campaign in the Philippines.
Over 165 restaurants in the country raised funds for WFP’s Emergency School Feeding programme, which aimed to provide nutritious meals to 80,000 elementary school children.
114 percent higher than last year's campaign, The
4.5 million peso donation can translate into
450,000 meals for the children in conflictaffected areas of Central Mindanao..
Celebrity endorser
Diether Ocampo and
Philippine Pizza, Inc. Chief Operating Officer Lars Peterson turned over the check to
WFP Country Director and Representative Stephen Anderson.
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World Food Programme |
Diether confessed that he himself has experienced poverty and hunger in the younger years of his life prior to becoming a celebrity and therefore can relate to what the children are going through.
“WFP is supporting the process of bringing children back to school after years of displacement and I wish for their continued success in their fight against hunger,” adds 'Diet', who himself volunteered to be part of the World Hunger Relief campaign.
“The World Food Programme is very grateful to Pizza Hut and Taco Bell for their strong partnership and commitment, which has greatly helped WFP efforts...This is one of the first steps in overcoming poverty and hunger”, said Anderson.
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(R-L) Lars Peterson, Stephen Anderson, Diether Ocampo holding the 4.5M++ Check |
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Photo with other WFP Officers and Pizza Hut Executives |
In the 60-day fundraising campaign,
Pizza Hut customers who donated
P40 received a Christmas card autographed by the restaurant’s celebrity endorser
Diether Ocampo. With every order of the
Pizza Hut WFP Feast or the
Taco Bell Nachos Bell Grande combo meal during the campaign period, customers contributed
P10 to the cause. Many other generous customers filled the WFP canisters on store counters nationwide.
Launched in 2007, WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than
90 million people in more than 70 countries.
WFP now provides RSS feeds to help journalists keep up with the latest press releases, videos and photos as they are published on WFP.org. For more details see:
http://www.wfp.org/rss
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World Food Program in Central Mindanao |
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Celebrity Endorser and Advocate Diether Ocampo |
For more information about World Food Programme, you may contact Angeli Mendoza, WFP/Manila, Tel: +63 2 7502561 Mobile: +63 917 8809368 (angeli.mendoza@wfp.org).
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