Yum! Brands Annual World Hunger Relief Campaign
Yum! Brands Annual World Hunger Relief Campaign Builds More Awareness and Engagement Than Ever to Help Stop World Hunger; Five Million Volunteer Hours and $17.5 Million in Overall Donations and Still Counting
Effort Will Help United Nations World Food Programme and Other Hunger Relief Agencies Provide More Than 70 Million Meals, Saving More Than 1.8 Million Lives
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) annual World Hunger Relief campaign to help stop world hunger has created even more global awareness, deeper engagement and volunteerism and increased donations to benefit the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and other hunger relief agencies.
As the world’s largest volunteer movement and private sector effort to combat hunger for the second year, more than 1.4 million employees, franchisees and their families across nearly 36,000 KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and A&W Restaurants in more than 100 countries volunteered approximately five million volunteer hours to aid hunger relief efforts in communities worldwide. The month-long effort has raised more than $17.5 million in overall donations to date and counting for WFP and other hunger relief agencies.
Global hunger has reached epic proportions – reaching nearly 1 billion people – due to the convergence of higher commodity and global food prices; increased competition for products that produce energy; severe droughts and floods due to climate change and increasing demand from growing economies in Asia and South America.
“Global hunger is a huge problem and has become worse with nearly 925 million people starving and going to bed hungry every day,” said David Novak, Chairman and CEO, Yum! Brands, Inc. “That’s why we are so inspired and more determined than ever to be the leader in wiping out hunger.”
“I’m incredibly proud of the overwhelming outpouring of support, volunteerism and generosity from our employees, franchisees, their families and our customers around the globe to make this year’s World Hunger Relief campaign an even greater success than last year,” said Novak. “Through our efforts, we will provide more than 70 million meals and save the lives of more than 1.8 million people, moving them from hunger to hope.”
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