Young Global Leaders launch 'Table for Two' initiative

06 Sep '07

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With one billion people suffering from hunger and another billion suffering from obesity, the “Table for Two” initiative of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum aims to tackle both, at the same time.

The initiative, launched during the Young Global Leader Annual Summit 2007 and the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China, offers a unique and simple scheme to address hunger in the developing world and obesity and other life-style related diseases in the developed world.

“Every time someone eats a healthy meal at participating company cafeterias, restaurants and events, 20 cents is donated to fund a healthy school meal in developing countries,” said James Kondo, President and Vice-Chairman, Health Policy Institute in Japan and Young Global Leader. And the aim is to spread the initiative worldwide.

Today, 32 companies have announced their commitment to offer healthy meals to their employees and customers, and in the process, donate 20 cents per healthy meal to school meal programmes in developing countries.

These are: AIM Services; All Nippon Airways; British Sky Broadcasting; Mitsui Trust Financial Group, Dial Service; DougFaberFamily; FamilyMart; Four Seeds; Fujitsu; Health Policy Institute Japan; IBM Japan; The Interlink Group; ITOCHU; Japan Airlines; Japan Bank for International Cooperation; Kajima; Kawori; Lehman Brothers; NEC; Nippon Life Insurance, Mori Building; MP Creative; Oisix; Outblaze; Rakuten; Riyada Ventures; Seiyo Food-Compass Group; SHiDAX; Sumitomo Chemical; Teijin; Tully's Coffee Japan; and Yokohama City Government.

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