Drew Barrymore Is New UN Ambassador Against Hunger

05/15/07

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drew BarrimoreThe UN announced last week that Drew Barrymore is the new Ambassador Against Hunger for the World Food Programme. Barrymore, 32, who recently returned from a second trip to Kenya to visit WFP-supported school feeding projects, joins world marathon record-holder Paul Tergat, from Kenya , as Ambassador Against Hunger.

Barrymore and Tergat, a former school feeding recipient, will focus their advocacy efforts on school feeding programs.

"Humbled"

“I am honoured and humbled to accept this challenging and rewarding assignment,” Barrymore said Wednesday. “I can’t think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.

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keep it up...ur a good samaritan helping other people is graet thing to do....
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