Yum! Brands Adopts Nicaragua Community; Launches New Employee “Feed the World Ambassador Program” for World Hunger Relief
October 01 2015 - 9:24AM
Business Wire
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) announced it has adopted the
community of Jinotega, Nicaragua, as part of the Company’s new Feed
the World Ambassador Program. The new employee leadership program
is part of the Company’s global World Hunger Relief effort that
raises awareness, volunteerism and donations for the United Nations
World Food Programme (WFP).
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Greg Creed, Chief Executive Officer of
Yum! Brands, serves food to children in a community in Jinotega,
Nicaragua, last week. Creed and a team of Yum! employees were on a
humanitarian trip in Nicaragua as part of the Company’s Feed the
World Ambassador Program. The new employee leadership program is
part of the Company’s global World Hunger Relief effort that raises
awareness, volunteerism and funds for the United Nations World Food
Programme and others. Visit HungertoHope.com. Photo Credit: Yum!
Brands
The Feed the World Ambassador Program is a way for Yum!
employees to fight global hunger and make a lasting impact in a
community in need. Each year, a team of selected Yum! Ambassadors
have the unique opportunity to travel to an adopted community and
evaluate infrastructure improvements the Company can support. The
Ambassadors work with WFP to determine improvement projects and
costs and then launch fundraising efforts to support the specific
community projects.
“We’re a company with a Huge Heart and it’s our privilege and
responsibility to Feed the World by making a difference in global
hunger,” said Greg Creed, Chief Executive Officer, Yum! Brands.
“Witnessing WFP’s life-saving efforts in developing countries like
Nicaragua is humbling. I’m hopeful our new employee campaign will
give those less fortunate a hand up and create long-term change in
communities around the world.”
Creed and a team of Yum! Ambassadors recently traveled to
Jinotega, Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in Latin America.
Creed and the Yum! Ambassadors met with local leaders and WFP to
identify how the Company could help several communities and schools
in the Jinotega region. They also spoke with teachers and parents
and prepared and served meals to children at local schools. The
Yum! team is raising funds this year to help communities in the
region build pre-school classrooms and bathrooms; upgrade their
school cafeterias, storage and cooking facilities; provide
essential classroom items such as student desks, white boards and
supplies; and install sustainable irrigation systems and school
gardens, among other things.
“Yum! Brands brings so much to our fight against hunger,” said
Jay Aldous, Director of Private Sector Partnerships, WFP. “What is
so inspiring is the commitment Yum! employees have in working
toward a world with zero hunger. The Feed the World Ambassador
Program is yet another example of this genuine desire to make an
impact and change lives.”
The new employee leadership program builds on the Company’s
legacy of supporting hunger relief initiatives. Yum! Brands’ World
Hunger Relief effort is the world’s largest private sector hunger
relief initiative, spanning more than 125 countries, over 41,000
KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants and 1.5 million
associates. Since it began in 2007, the effort has raised more than
$600 million in cash and food donations for WFP and other hunger
relief organizations and provided 2.4 billion nutritious meals for
those in need.
Yum! also addresses hunger in the U.S. through its Harvest
program. Since 1992, the Company’s brands have contributed more
than 176 million pounds of food to over 3,000 nonprofit
organizations for those at risk of hunger in the U.S. Since its
launch over two decades ago, Yum! Harvest has become the largest
prepared-food donation program in the world. The Company continues
to expand the program globally.
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over
41,000 restaurants in more than 125 countries and territories. Yum!
is ranked #228 on the Fortune 500 List with revenues of over $13
billion in 2014 and is one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for
Leaders in North America. The Company’s restaurant brands – KFC,
Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – are the global leaders of the chicken,
pizza and Mexican-style food categories. Outside the United States,
the Yum! Brands system opens over five new restaurants per day on
average, making it a leader in international retail
development.
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger
worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working
with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. Each
year, WFP assists some 80 million people in around 80
countries.
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