The first World Food Day event was in 1981.
The West campus held the 23rd annual World Food Day Teleconference last week, the day WFD is traditionally observed.
WFD is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and informed, year-round action to alleviate hunger.
Chino Glozer, a participant in WFD, said, "[WFD] is to address the issues of world hunger and poverty, increase awareness among people and discuss how we should approach the problems in order to create equitable society."
Patricia Young, the national coordinator on the U.S. National Committee for World Food Day, said that ASU West has been a site for this teleconference since 1993.
Wanda Tucker-Hicks is a graduate student who works part time in the Women's Studies Resource Center at ASU West. Her role in the teleconference was to ensure its success through advertisement and logistics and prepare dialogue among the local teleconference participants.
Tucker-Hicks said, "We were successful in developing a question that was aired during the teleconference and answered by the panelists. The question we asked was, 'How do individuals begin to develop programs at the local level to address hunger?'"
According to Tucker-Hicks, a panelist responded that a number of agencies already exist in Arizona. They encouraged youth to seek out an existing one or begin a new program on campus with others who are equally interested.
"It was quite exciting!" Glozer said.
Reach the reporter at Cristina.Boccio@asu.edu.
