Drew Barrymore, award winning actress, was appointed by the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) as an Ambassador Against Hunger in 2007 and in March, 2008 donated $1-million of her personal funds to the World Food Programme, which provides aid to over 130 countries. She also acts as a spokesperson for WFP before the U.S. Government and in other public awareness campaigns.

In 2005, Drew travelled to Kenya as a WFP partner to see firsthand the impact of hunger in urban slums, such as Nairobi’s Kibera slums - which is home to over one million people. In 2007, Drew returned to Africa to work on a WFP documentary on school feeding projects, and later was officially named an Ambassador Against Hunger for WFP in May, 2007.

In 2006, WFP fed 19.4 million children in 71 countries through school feeding programs.WFP Executive Director, Josette Sheeran, said “We estimate that there are more than 112 million school-aged children who are undernourished and live in developing countries. It’s (school feeding) one of the single-best investments we can make, not only in the economic development of poor countries, but in the collective security of our planet.”

“I can’t think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry”, Drew Barrymore.

Drew Barrymore was awarded a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame in 2004 and has received international acclaim in such movies as ET, the Extra-Terrestrial, Charlies’s Angels, and Batman Forever.

Information on donation opportunities can be found on the World Food Programme website.