As part of this year’s World Food Day
celebrations, Unilever Philippines has again renewed its commitment to help
improve the health and well-being of Filipino children by donating Php6 million
to support the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) school feeding
programme in remote and conflict-affected areas of Central Mindanao.
The amount is being donated through Unilever’s
number one food brand, Knorr, and will be used to provide 600,000 hot
nutritious school meals to 100,000 public elementary school children in the
provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, and Lanao del Norte. WFP will be
carrying out the programme in partnership with the Department of Social Welfare
and Development, and the Department of Education.
“We would like to thank Unilever for its
consistent and valuable support to WFP in the Philippines. Over the years,
Unilever has mobilized its different brands to come up with innovative and
creative ways to help raise awareness of, and mobilize resources for, the fight
against hunger – they are true champions of the cause,” said WFP Philippines
Representative and Country Director Stephen Anderson.
“The support that we give to school feeding is
just one part of the overall sustainable living plan of Unilever to help
improve the nutrition levels of Filipino children and contribute to the
Philippines’ effort to meets its Millennium Development Goal targets. But we
cannot do this alone. We are privileged to have as a global partner such as the
World Food Programme to help us in achieving this goal,” added Unilever
Philippines Foods and Customer Development Director Carl Cruz.
Unilever has contributed to WFP and its fight
against hunger in the Philippines since 2008, through the global event “Walk
the World,” organised in collaboration with TNT Express and DSM to raise funds
and awareness for WFP’s work. In the Philippines, Walk the World has generated
over PhP13.8 million to fund school meals.Globally, Unilever has been a WFP
corporate partner since December 2006, donating a total of US$18.7 million to
support WFP’s work around the world.
About WFP
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.
Twitter: @wfp_asia and @wfp_philippines and
@wfp_media Facebook: WFP Philippines
About Unilever
Unilever works to create a better future every
day. We help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands
and services that are good for them and good for others. We are one of the
world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong local roots
in more than 100 countries. Consumers buy 170 billion Unilever packs around the
world every year, and our products are used over two billion times a day. Our
portfolio includes some of the world’s best known brands such as Knorr, Lipton,
Dove, Sunsilk, Surf and Rexona.
Our ambition is to double the size of our
business, while reducing our overall environmental impact (including sourcing,
consumer use and disposal). We are also committed to doing what we can to
improve health, nutrition and hygiene, with goals to help more than a billion
people take action to improve their health and well-being, as well as to source
all our agricultural raw materials sustainably by 2020. Supporting our three
big goals are more than 50 time-based targets in the Unilever Sustainable
Living Plan.
For more information about Unilever and its
brands, please visit www.unilever.com.
For more information, please contact:
World Food Programme - Philippines (Email:
charlene.tordesillas@wfp.org): Charlene Tordesillas, WFP/Manila, Tel: +63 2
7502561 Mobile: +639178809368
Unilever Philippines (Email: liza.vengco@unilever.com): Liza
Vengco, Communications Manager, Tel: +63 2 5887342 Mobile: +639088805776
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