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Walk the World
Walk the World is the world’s largest annual global fundraising event and was first launched by TNT in 2003.
The Walk is a 24-hour relay with participants in each of the world's time zones walking five kilometres. It begins in Auckland, New Zealand and finishes in Samoa.
Since its inception, Walk the World has grown considerably from an event of around 40,000 TNT employees taking part with family and friends, to more than 250,000 people walking the world in 2008.
The aim of Walk the World is twofold: to support WFP in raising awareness about child hunger, and to help them generate the necessary funds to address the problem.
The funds are used to support WFP's School Feeding Programme in Nicaragua, Cambodia, The Gambia, Tanzania and Malawi.
This event has the potential to bring awareness that every day we lose 25.000 people to hunger. More than many of the critical diseases combined. And we can win this battle. - Josette Sheeran (Executive Director WFP)
Walk the World 2009
On Sunday 7 June, tens of thousands of people took to...
Walk the World 2008
On June 1st – International Children’s Day –...
Walk the World 2007: The Fifth Anniversary
On May 13 over 210,000 people Walked the...
Walk the World 2006
The WFP, its humanitarian and corporate partners,...
Walk the World 2005
On 12 June 2005, more than 200,000 people made...
Walk the World 2004
In 2003, TNT employees in Asia undertook walks to...
Walk the World: The Beginning
On 22 June, over 4,000 TNT employees in nine Asian...
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Walk the World 2009 initiatives
Walk the World 2009 is fast approaching, and people from all over the world are organising wonderful and original events and creating great materials to make this year's Walk an enormous succes. A small selection: more