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On October, 16 th as usual English Speaking club was held at American Corner Karaganda in Gogol library. The topic was – World  Food Day. CC Program Alumna-Olga Volkova conducted the club.

World Food Day is a day of action against hunger. On October 16, people around the world come together to declare their commitment to eradicate hunger in our lifetime. Because when it comes to hunger, the only acceptable number in the world is zeroWorld Food Day celebrates the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on October 16, 1945. First established in 1979, World Food Day has since then been observed in almost every country by millions of people.

Visitors got acquainted with this theme,with goal of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). They discussed  the problems  of  hunger  and shared with their opinion how to solve the problem. They knew a lot of new words according to this topic.

Why care about hunger?

Because the right to food is a basic human right.In a world of plenty, 805 million people, one in nine worldwide, live with chronic hunger. The costs of hunger and malnutrition fall heavily on the most vulnerable.

• 60% of the hungry in the world are women.
• Almost 5 million children under the age of 5 die of malnutrition-related causes every year.
• 4 in 10 children in poor countries are malnourished damaging their bodies and brains.

Every human being has a fundamental right to be free from hunger and the right to adequate food. The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child has the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement.

And at last our visitors told about the traditinal food of different nationalities such as Kazakh, Bulgarian, Korean.