Over 850 million people around the world are starving and the situation is getting worse every day because there is a global food shortage.

Every 5 seconds a child dies from hunger somewhere in the world – the equivalent of thirty-seven 747 planes filled with children crashing every day (18,000 children). Hunger kills more people than war, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, and with today’s soaring commodity prices, climate changes, increased conflicts and war, and demographic trends, the problem is worse than ever before.

Join Yum! Brands and our 35,000 restaurants worldwide by donating right now to the World Food Programme, or by writing your Congressman today. Please help us save lives.

Together, we can stop the dying, and start the living. We can move from hunger to hope. Thank you for being a part of this important movement.

Yum! Brands' inaugural World Hunger Relief Week leveraged the power of nearly 35,000 restaurants around the world, sparking a global movement to end hunger and generating an overwhelming outpouring of support from millions of customers, employees, franchisees and their families. Nearly one million Yum!, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and A&W All American Food employees, franchisees and their families volunteered close to 4 million hours to aid hunger relief efforts in communities worldwide, while helping to raise $16 million throughout the World Hunger Relief Week initiative for the World Food Programme and other hunger relief agencies around the world.

World Hunger Relief Week had three goals:

• By leveraging the company's global scale with consumers around the world, 1.6 million are being saved from starvation
• Yum! and it's brands donated 11 million pounds of food to homeless shelters and soup kitchens in the U.S.
• Our total value of monetary donations, food donations, awareness campaign and volunteer hours: $187,000,000

Money that was raised for the World Food Programme through World Hunger Relief Week helped to:

Feed 8.2 million school meals to over 41,000 children in Guatemala, El Salvador, Rwanda, Lesotho, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia Allowed the school feeding program in Ethiopia to continue for one year, reaching 438,000 primary school age children Provide Emergency Assistance to:

Bolivia – provided 100,000 people affected by floods with fortified meals for one month Somalia – provided 685,000 people affected by civil conflict with fortified meals for one month Pakistan – provided 132,000 people affected by floods with fortified meals for one month Peru – Provided 7,500 survivors of an earthquake with rice Bangladesh – provided 209,000 victims of Cyclone Sidr with fortified meals for one month

World Hunger Relief Week 2008 is scheduled for this fall.

We have proven that together, we can stop the dying, and start the living. We can move from hunger to hope. Thank you for being a part of this important movement.