For nearly a billion people around the world, hunger is a real, terrible, and ever-present fate that hounds their every step. According to the World Food Program, each year ten million people, many of them children, die of hunger and hunger-related diseases.

Buddhist Global Relief addresses hunger and poverty. It sponsors projects that provide food relief and poverty alleviation both in the developing world and the UK. This year, the Buddhist global relief will be donating 10% of the funds to Woking Food Bank.

Woking Food Bank try to ensure that nobody in our community goes hungry. That’s why they provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are in crisis. Since 2015 they have provided 935 three-day emergency food supplies to people from Woking.

The walk is called ‘Feed the Hungry’ and the funds raised go towards helping some of the poorest in the world as well as some in UK.

This year the walk is on Saturday 26th May 2018, 10.30 am and is about 9-miles round trip from Petersfield Market Square (Hampshire) to the Queen Elizabeth Country Park and back. Petersfield is on the rail line from London Waterloo.

Walkers will be also accompanied by some monks from nearby Chithurst Buddhist Monastery.