KC is UN Ambassador Against Hunger

Started by grazie7y, February 28, 2008, 07:01:03 AM

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grazie7y

Young Filipino actress KC Concepcion was chosen by United Nations to be the Ambassador Against Hunger of the World Food Program.

KC's first assignment was in Pikit, North Cotabato, where she distributed take-home rice and took part in onsite feeding and distribution of warm formulated meals in selected schools last February 18.

Hot meals are given to 16,000 children in 277 schools and daycare centers. The WFP has increased enrolment by 40 percent and has sustained attendance by 94 percent in assisted schools.

Before she was chosen for this U-N role, KC went on a three-month screening process and got approved by three officesâ€"Rome, Vatican, and Thailand. She's only the third to be chosen from Southeast Asia.

"I am so happy to be connected with the right channels talaga. It's quite a feat to feed hungry children everyday and help resolve conflict and keep them in school, Hopefully, we can get the government to implement feeding programs properly and efficiently too by setting a big example on how things should be done. The problem is that the feeding program of our government limits to 19 days of feeding out of 80. So it becomes more symbolic. We better do something to engage the youth too apart from raising awareness to those who can donate," Filipino actress said.

KC stressed "that the work of the WFP to put the issue of hunger at the center is important, as a child dies of hunger somewhere around the world. Kawawa naman. The focus here is food for school to make kids stay in school. It also lessens child labor. I want sana to have hunger and malnutrition covered by media at least once a week because it is an issue that is as important or even more so but none is paying too much attention to it. That's part of my job, to help WFP work to put the issue of hunger at the center."
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B:)

She's quite somethin, isn't she?

She doesn't have to win a beauty a contest in order to serve anything for the human race, she made her way there convincingly that the UN saw how real she is inspite of being young and a daughter of a popular mom.

orChids

KC is pretty and kind.Congratulations Sharon for having this kind of daughter.

svetlana

Exactly, and she's intelligent too.

Beautiful, a kind heart, intelligent, has the money, chic. aguy, tanang nindot nga adjective ma connect nimo niya.
It's hard to wait for something you know might not happen, but it's harder to give up when you know it's everything you wanted.

Lorenzo

She's humble and genuine, just like her mother.

I can see her going into politics in the future.

I can see her as President of the Republic someday.

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swakee

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