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World Food Day Events 2018

GLOBAL EVENTS: Canada:  Heritage Woods Secondary School #Move4MANA Event. Heritage Woods Students in Port Moody, British Columbia, will launch their 2nd Move 4 MANA challenge on the Active for Good App. (Learn more about the initiative via Global TV) Students Marketing Video: click … Continue reading

Langley Today – World Food Day At Langley Events Centre, October 16 2014

JoyTV News – World Food Day 2014

Langley Times – World Food Day event at LEC Canada’s largest

World Food Day and Plastic Packaging: Protecting Food and Reducing Food Waste

Langley Leading The Charge For World Food Day 2012

LANGLEY LEADING THE CHARGE FOR WORLD FOOD DAY 2012 LANGLEY, B.C., Oct. 9th, 2012 – High school students are getting an up close and personal look at hunger both, locally and globally. 1,500 Langley students are scheduled to flood the … Continue reading

Endorsement from Mayor Fassbender

VIEW THE ENDORSEMENT LETTER August 1, 2012 To Whom It May Concern: RE:   Letter of Endorsement – World Food Day Event It is with pleasure that I pledge my full support for the Food For Famine Society’s World Food Day … Continue reading

Event Aims to Eliminate Hunger

— July 30, 2012 — For years we have seen the haunting images and heard the tragic headlines: each day, thousands of children are still starving to death in developing nations. Many people wish they could help – but the … Continue reading

Did you know what RUTF means?

RUTF (Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food) is a vitamin and mineral fortified peanut paste mixed with dry milk products. It has been heralded by Doctors Without Borders as a miracle cure for children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition.  These are children whose … Continue reading

RUTF in Burundi: Food for Famine Society donates RUTF to Burundi via World Vision

— June 2012 — Food For Famine Society purchased Plumpy Nut, a RUTF product for children suffering for severe malnutrition, to be shipped to Burundi via World Vision Canada. Plumpy Nut is supporting the scale up of FARN and CMAM … Continue reading

Kenya: A mother says, Plumpy’nut is her daughter’s life

For children like Janet, were it not for a ready to use therapeutic food known as Plumpy’nut, a peanut like paste fortified with proteins and vitamins, they probably would not be alive today. Janet has been battling acute malnutrition, but … Continue reading

Worldwide, it’s either feast or famine

— December 27, 2011 — Speakers and exhibits at the World Food Day event in Langley gave people plenty to chew on Langley Secondary School hosted the community event for the day, created by the United Nations to spotlight food, … Continue reading

City Mayor helps deliver world hunger message

The theme of World Food Day on Monday was United Against Hunger. Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender was among those spotlighting world hunger Monday at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Several groups worked together to present the local event for World Food … Continue reading

RUTF in Niger

Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) is the miracle food for children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Watch this video to learn more about RUTF in action. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48UTrEARF4&feature=youtu.be