{"id":5924,"date":"2011-08-17T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T11:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2011-08-23T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T11:15:15","slug":"yum-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/08\/17\/yum-brands\/","title":{"rendered":"Yum! Brands Directs First $1 Million of World Hunger Relief Funds to Help Fight Hunger in The Horn of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yum.com\/company\/pressreleases\/081711.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5925\" title=\"110823_yum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110823_yum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), the world\u2019s largest restaurant company and  parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, announced today that it is  directing the first $1 million from its World Hunger Relief global  effort to provide food to families affected by hunger and suffering the  effects of drought in the Horn of Africa. The funds will help the United  Nations World Food Programme (WFP) feed those in urgent need of food  assistance. Drought coupled with high food prices and conflict in the Horn of  Africa is affecting more than 13 million people. WFP is rapidly moving  life-saving food and nutritional products by sea, air and road to hungry  populations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, and Somalia to  address their needs. In Somalia alone, WFP is feeding 1.5 million people  in the northern and central parts of the country and in Mogadishu which  continues to fill up with those fleeing the famine zone. \u201cThe situation throughout the Horn of Africa is desperate and we all  need to help,\u201d said David Novak, Chairman and CEO, Yum! Brands, Inc. \u201cAs  a company with a huge heart, we believe it is critical to immediately  commit the first $1 million from our World Hunger Relief effort to aid  the people throughout the Horn of Africa.\u201d Novak and other senior executives and franchise leaders from KFC,  Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Yum! Restaurants International traveled to  Honduras earlier this week to help WFP\u2019s relief efforts in the country.  As the second poorest country in Central America, Honduras is one of the  many recipients of funds raised through World Hunger Relief. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yum.com\/company\/pressreleases\/081711.asp\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, Somalia | Company: Yum! Brands | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yum.com\/company\/pressreleases\/081711.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Yum! Brands<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), the world\u2019s largest restaurant company and parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, announced today that it is directing the first $1 million from its World Hunger Relief global effort to provide food to families affected by hunger and suffering the effects of drought in the Horn of Africa. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[316],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-yum-brands","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}