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I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education, and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.

From Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1964. While the beliefs quoted above by Dr. Martin Luther King reflect the spirit of a humane world, it is his reference to 'three meals a day' that is most appropriate on World Food Day.

Though every year presents a new set of challenges in the fight against hunger, the problems faced by the poorest of countries in 2008 have surpassed our ability to deal with them. The mission of World Food Day is to increase awareness and understanding of this critical issue and to encourage year-round action to alleviate hunger.

Observed each year on October 16th, in recognition of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945.

These are the following Goals of them:

· Increase Awareness: Provide a briefing on the issues for the media; promote WFD.

· Increase Understanding: Work with schools and colleges; plan a community seminar.

· Information: Help in coordinating a research project on community food security.

· Increase Support: Hold a fundraiser for local and/or international projects

· Increase Advocacy: Seek policy commitments from public officials (or candidates).

· Increase Networking: Use WFD to bring together people, ideas, and resources.

· Increase Year-Around Action: Seek to involve people in ongoing service/support.

· Increase Impact: Devise a means to measure the year-to-year progress you are making; consider World Food Day the "annual meeting" for hunger activists.