Football leagues dedicate weekend matches to fight against hunger

Sixteen European football leagues are dedicating their matches this weekend to the fight against hunger and poverty.
The "European Match Day against Hunger" is being promoted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the European Professional Football Leagues Association.
The leagues are urging their fans to sign an online petition calling on governments to give priority to the elimination of hunger.
Communications Officer at FAO, Paul Anthem, told Vatican Radio that the “initiative came about after an agreement with the European Professional Football Leagues Association in 2008.”
The aim he says, “is to tap into the power and immense popularity of sport, and in particular football, and to use that to try and highlight the issues of world hunger.”
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