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Kids Against Hunger is a nonprofit organization with the mission to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world.〔http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/who_we_are.shtml〕 This is being achieved by getting volunteers involved, and by setting up food packaging satellites in the USA, and through partnerships with humanitarian organizations worldwide〔http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/what_we_do.shtml〕〔http://northstarmedia.net/star/STARIssues_files/stm041608-102-32.pdf〕 - enabling Kids Against Hunger to deliver its specially formulated rice-soy casserole to starving children and their families in over 60 countries.〔http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/what_we_do.shtml〕 The Kids Against Hunger network currently includes about 100 food packaging centers with the goal to establish 500 packaging centers in all 50 U.S. states.〔http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/what_we_do.shtml〕 == History == Kids Against Hunger was started in March 1999 by Richard Proudfit, a Minnesota businessman,〔http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/our_founder.shtml〕 under the name Feeding Children International. He eventually set up a program under this organization called “Kids Against Hunger”.〔http://www.ci.apple-valley.mn.us/Minutes/City_Council/2000/7_13.html〕 This name is now used to identify the company. Since its start in 1999, Kids Against Hunger has provided a total of 162 million meals to children and families in need in 65 countries.〔http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/news.shtml〕 The organization is also actively involved in the hunger relief efforts following the recent earthquake in Haiti by providing millions of meals to the victims.〔http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/minnesotans-helping-haiti-quake-kids-march-7-2010〕 〔http://www.10news.com/video/22252256/index.html〕 〔http://www.navy.mil/swf/mmu/mmplyr.asp?id=13859〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kids Against Hunger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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