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The 'Family Meal campaign' opened with a photography exhibition at Brussels Gare du Midi that will travel across Europe over the next year. Madrid, Dublin and Lisbon are next in line to display the photographs showing how EU humanitarian aid helps people feed their families in five countries on three different continents.
The main goal of the campaign is to present the achievements of ECHO's partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) in an understandable and engaging way as well as to raise awareness and enhance knowledge around the fact that hunger is one of the world’s most solvable humanitarian problems.
"Each day more than 8 000 children die of undernutrition. In response to this unacceptable reality, the European Commission increasingly targets its humanitarian and food assistance on the hungriest and most vulnerable populations in extreme crises," said Claus Sorensen, Director General of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO). "The world can solve the hunger problem through building awareness and taking action. The WFP-EU partnership is doing just that", he added.
The family meal was chosen as the central theme of the campaign, because of its simplicity, its universality across cultures, the positive emotional associations it fosters, and its relevance to nutrition and well-being both in humanitarian crises and in European households.
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