TNT walks to end hunger for Vietnamese children

This is a joint effort between TNT and its corporate partner, World Food Programme (WFP), a United Nations frontline agency mandated to combat global hunger, in order to improve awareness and raise money to support disadvantaged children. In Vietnam, this year is the 9^th consecutive year that TNT has organised the programme.

Hardy Diec, country general director of TNT Vietnam said: “Hunger and malnutrition are the biggest threats to global health worldwide. Our mission is management of our operations with respect for society and the environment in all of the communities in which we operate around the world. This means taking responsibility for the company’s part in the community and doing what is necessary to preserve and improve the world for future generations.”

Accordingly, the walk is a 24-hour relay in all over the world with participants in each of the world’s time zones walking five kilometers. It began in Auckland, New Zealand and finished in Samoa.

In Vietnam, over 200employees from TNT, their families, friends and partners have walked at the Hanoi Botanic Garden to show their solidarity in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. In Vietnam, half of the amount collected locally will go to the Education For Development (EFD), an international organisation that works with Vietnamese partners to support improvement and expansion of educational services for disadvantage children and youth.

This year EFD is supporting improvements in special schools for children with disabilities and in vocational training centers for disables and disadvantaged youth. The rest of the local fund will be going to WFP.

Since its inception in 2003, Walk the World programme has brought over 2.1 million participants and raised enough money to provide school meals to over 200,000 children a year. Last year, through the “End Hunger – Walk the World”, 130,000 people walked in 157 different locations, raising enough money to provide school meals for one year to more than 14,600 children in the world's poorest countries.