Taylor's Education Group World Food Day

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World Hunger Crisis:
Here at Taylor's, we believe strongly in service: not only to our students and our country, but to the world as a whole. Hunger and malnutrition are at the forefront of urgent problems in the world today, especially with the current Somalian crisis. Over a billion people on our earth go hungry every day, and malnutrition plays a role in more than half of all childhood deaths. We believe that this is a severe and urgent problem. More importantly, we believe that all of us are part of the solution.

Thus, Taylor's Education Group (TEG) has pledged to pack and donate 1,000,000 meals through TEG World Food Day, when we will hold a series of Meal Packaging Events at Taylor's University and Taylor's College campuses as well as Sri Garden Schools on 16 October 2011. Each pack consists of 6 meals. Partnered with NGOs such as Stop Hunger Now and Food for the Hungry International, we aim to pack 166,667 packs (or 1,000,000 meals) to be distributed to crisis-burdened areas or school feeding programmes.



About Meal Packaging Events:

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Meal Packaging Events are fun-filled charity events that anyone can engage in, making them fantastic team building or family day events. Food packing lines will be formed by volunteers, with each section specializing in certain packaging activities. Every volunteer is given a specific task to do, which could involve funneling, measuring, sealing, or boxing. Each finished package contains 6 highly nutritious meals containing rice, soy protein, dried vegetables, flavoring and 21 essential vitamins and minerals.

Our target for this event is to actively address the problem of world hunger by having at least 1,000 volunteers pack 1 million meals within 1 day on 16 October 2011. We are also striving to bring the issue of world hunger to the forefront through the media and participants of the event. In addition, we would like to be part of generating continuous successful Meal Packaging events. In the past, the 45 million meals that have been packaged have been received in 76 countries.

Please click here for the Soft Launch of World Food Day.

About Our Partner – Stop Hunger Now (SHN):
Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief agency that has coordinated the distribution of food to countries all over the world, with over 45 million meals packaged and transported to crisis-burdened areas or school feeding programmes in 76 countries. They are dedicated to providing food and life-saving aid to the most vulnerable, and to creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources. For more information, visit their website www.stophungernow.org.

Be a Part of the Solution:
We would like to invite you to help us make a difference.
Click to download World Food Day Food Raising Form.

There are many ways to contribute, including:

• Purchasing RM18 World Food Day T-shirts. All proceeds will go directly towards this worthy cause.
• Volunteering on World Food Day itself. This is the most hands-on way to get involved – become one of the 1,000 volunteers that will create a million meals on 16 October 2011 across Taylor's campuses! Make a real difference and join us for a meal packaging event.
  
  

  Date     :	16 October 2011
  Venue  :	Taylor's University Taylor's College Sri Garden Schools

Be a Volunteer: Register here to be a volunteer to pack food on TEG World Food Day. For Taylor's University Lakeside Campus, log on to: http://www.planetReg.com/E8291342253 For Taylor's College Subang Jaya & Sri Hartamas, log on to: http://www.planetReg.com/E82412531253
• Food-Raising. Taylor's Education Group will prepare any amount of 375-gram food packs, containing 6 meals of soy protein, rice, dried vegetables and nutrient-filled flavoring, each worth RM6, on your behalf.
  
  Companies may choose from the following sponsorship options:
  
  
  • Contribute 350 meal packs, worth RM2,100:
    
    • Corporate logo placement in leaflet & poster
    • Mention in PR materials
  • Contribute 850 meal packs, worth RM5,100:
    
    • Corporate logo placement in leaflet & poster
    • Exposure in Taylor's 8 websites
    • Mention in PR materials
  • Contribute 1,700 meal packs, worth RM10,200:
    
    • Corporate logo placement in leaflet, poster, buntings, and backdrop
    • Exposure in Taylor's 8 websites
    • Exposure in Taylor's 3 Facebook pages
    • Personal meal packing line
    • Mention in PR materials
  • Contribute 3,350 meal packs, worth RM20,100:
    
    • Corporate logo placement in leaflet, poster, buntings, backdrop, banner, and T-shirt
    • Exposure in Taylor's 8 websites
    • Exposure in Taylor's 3 Facebook pages
    • Personal meal packing line
    • Mention in PR materials

Contact Us
"TEG World Food Day" Food-Raising Committee c/o Corporate Marketing
Block A, Level 3, No. 1 Jalan Taylor's, 47500 Subang Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia
T: +60 3 5629 5000    F: +60 3 5629 5141
E: csr@taylors.edu.my

Come and participate in Share The Love Concert @ Taylor's Lakeside Campus. All proceeds from the sale of Julie's biscuits will go towards TEG World Food Day.

Click below:

• To view the poster
• For concert’s information

Any contribution you make to this event directly provides emergency food supplies to our fellow being around the world who are in life-threatening crisis situations.

Thank you for being part of the solution

and together we will reach our goal:

One Day, One Million Meals.

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Serving the humanitarian community - WFP LOGISTICS

Desert, swamp or jungle, to get food to the hungry, WFP's logistics team has to negotiate some of the toughest terrain on the planet.

In 2011, WFP aims to reach more than 90 million beneficiaries in 74 countries. To achieve this goal, WFP will rely on its impressive logistics capacity.

When the areas needing food are not accessible by road, rail or river, other methods are brought into play. An emergency may require a cargo drop from aircraft or a helicopter airlift, but there are other options too. Locally engaged porters, as well as teams of elephants, yak, donkeys and camels are also used when necessary.

Always on the move

On any given day WFP operates an average of:

60 aircraft
40 ships
5,000 trucks

The different ways WFP transports food can be grouped into three categories: surface transport, shipping and aviation.

Rapid response

About half the food distributed by WFP is sourced directly within the country or region where it is needed. The other half, sourced internationally, is shipped by sea and unloaded in 78 cargo ports around the world.

Thanks to a range of strategies, WFP is always able to provide a rapid response to hunger emergencies. A key element in this response is the WFP-managed network of UN Humanitarian Response Depots. These are hubs, positioned near disaster-prone areas around the world, where emergency supplies are stored in readiness.

Serving the humanitarian community

WFP's expertise in logistics meant that in 2005 the agency was mandated to lead logistics operations whenever a humanitarian emergency requires a joint response from UN agencies and the humanitarian community. The group of agencies or organisations which work together is called the Logistics Cluster.

WFP also provides passenger air transport to the entire humanitarian community through the UN Humanitarian Air Service (see video on right), which goes to more than 200 locations worldwide.

For more detailed information on logistics see WFP Logistics.

National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com

Our Dwindling Food Variety

As we've come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables, thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared. It's hard to know exactly how many have been lost over the past century, but a study conducted in 1983 by the Rural Advancement Foundation International gave a clue to the scope of the problem. It compared USDA listings of seed varieties sold by commercial U.S. seed houses in 1903 with those in the U.S. National Seed Storage Laboratory in 1983. The survey, which included 66 crops, found that about 93 percent of the varieties had gone extinct. More up-to-date studies are needed.

National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com