QPR Support The "Professional Football Against Hunger Campaign" This Weekend

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- This weekend will see Football League Clubs give their support to the 'Professional Football Against Hunger' campaign.
- The campaign, which will encompass hundreds of Clubs and millions of supporters across European football, is intended to raise awareness of the plight of the 963 million people who suffer from hunger and malnutrition and are without adequate access to food.
- The 'Professional Football against Hunger' campaign was launched in October by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL), of which The Football League is an associate member.
- The EPFL is made up of 29 member and associated members leagues and comprises more than 900 professional Football Clubs across Europe.
- Funds raised during the football weekend will help to finance anti-hunger micro-projects around the world, that have been designed to provide immediate and lasting solutions to poor families and communities by enabling them to produce their own food.
- The micro projects, which are funded to a maximum of €7,000 each, are used to finance tangible resources such as fishing equipment, seeds and agricultural implements. They vary enormously, from helping families raise pigs in Venezuela, to creating school gardens in Cape Verde and Mauritania and providing school lunches in Uganda.
- As well as matches in The Football League, The 'Professional Football Against Hunger' weekend will also include major games in the Premier League, Italian Lega Calcio and Pro Lega, German Bundesliga, , Spanish La Liga, Portuguese League, Dutch Eredivisie, Scottish Premier League, Bulgarian League and Welsh Premier League.
- To find out more about the campaign click here - QPR

European Professional Football LEagues (EPFL) Professional Football Against Hunger weekend 20–22 March
European Professional Football Leagues and FAO join forces for anti-hunger match weekend
12 March 2009, Nyon – The European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) join forces to organize first ever Europe-wide football campaign against hunger, being held from 20 to 22 March, in the stadiums of the European Leagues.
Aimed at raising awareness about the urgent need to fight hunger and poverty, exacerbated by the current economic crisis, funds raised during the football weekend will help to finance anti-hunger micro-projects around the world.
The match weekend is part of a “Professional Football against Hunger” campaign launched on 15 October 2008 by FAO and the EPFL, on the occasion of the celebration of the World Food Day at FAO headquarters in Rome.
Ever more hungry people
The “Professional Football against Hunger” campaign is intended to raise awareness of the plight of the 963 million people who suffer from hunger and malnutrition and who do not have adequate access to food.
The money raised in the campaign will serve to finance FAO TeleFood microprojects designed to provide immediate and lasting solutions to poor families and communities and enable them to produce their own food.

Earlier this year, a high-level delegation of EPFL Executives and football players from Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal visited micro projects in Egypt ,as part of the preparations for the EPFL/FAO Professional Football anti-hunger match weekend.
The micro projects, funded for a maximum of €7 000 each, are used to finance tangible resources such as fishing equipment, seeds and agricultural implements. They vary enormously, from helping families raise pigs in Venezuela, through creating school gardens in Cape Verde and Mauritania or providing school lunches in Uganda and teaching children to grow food, to raising fish in a leper community in India.
Participating Leagues on the 20 – 22 March 2009 MatchDay against hunger
The Professional Football against Hunger weekend will include, among others, major matches from Italian Lega Calcio and Pro Lega, German Bundesliga, English Premier League, Spanish League, Portuguese League, Dutch Eredivisie, Scottish Premier League, Bulgarian League and Welsh Premier League. In Portugal the 2009 Carlsberg CUP Final is included among the main games supporting the FAO/EPFL campaign.
For more information, please visit the official “Professional Football Against Hunger” campaign web pages on: www.epfl-europeanleagues.com/fao
Contacts:
EPFL
Alberto Colombo
Communication, Marketing and Event Manager
Mob: +41 79 237 5104
E: alberto.colombo@epfl-europeanleagues.com
FAO
World Food Day and Special Initiatives Branch (KCIW)
Tel: +390657055238
Fax +39 0657053210
E: world-food-day@fao.org
E: telefood@fao.org

See Also: Football/Hunger