Joseph Henry's Venture

1. HUNGER
Social
Entrepreneur:
Joseph Henry
BB CITIZENSHIP 2

2. Introduction on Joseph Henry
- Joseph Henry is a Master’s of Public Health(MPH)
Candidate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham(UAB)
- Henry was inspired to take on the challenge of the Hunger 500
run after attending the World Hunger Summit in Alabama.
- He also heard stories about normal people doing extraordinary
feats for the needy and thus started out the run.
- Joseph also had a love and passion for running from young and
he decided to use it and run for the people suffering from
hunger.

3. Introduction on “Hunger 500”
- The Hunger 500 is a group started by Joseph Henry who wanted to raise
awareness on hunger and poverty issues.
- Thus, the main goal of Hunger 500 was to increase its awareness about hunger
and to raise a minimum sum of $100,000 to be donated to the United Nations
Food World Programme to help make a difference in their lives.
- Joseph and his team began a 17 day run on 9 February 2011 to start running from
the White house Washington, DC to the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

4. History of ‘Hunger 500’
-The Hunger 500 first started out on the 9th February in 2011.It
was when Joseph Henry realized that millions of people around
the world suffers from hunger everyday.He was therefore
inspired to run 500 miles to raise awareness among people and
to raise a amount of $100,000 as a contribution to the United
Nation Food programme to fight world hunger.
-Joseph henry explains his inspiration saying that after he
learned about the number of deaths and people suffering due to
hunger,it becomes a moltivation for him to try to help in some
way or another.Thus, it states the beginning of ‘Hunger 500’

5. Impact of Hunger 500
Hunger 500 impacted the world by raising awareness on the
issue of hunger and the necessity for people to come together in
a conference and come up with solutions to tackle the issue on
world hunger
It also helped out the people suffering from hunger in many
countries like Africa, etc.
It also inspired even more people to donate through online
donations and made the people over the world be aware of
Hunger.

6. Credits
Team members:
Teo Yu Wei
Wong Ho Yin
Cephas Chin
Zen Bin
Lucas Lian
Links:
http://bb.valuesventure.com/CBS1_Le
sson_Hunger.pdf
http://wfpusa.org/blog/hunger-500
http://www.slideshare.net/DavidJoel12
3/joseph-henry-hunger-500
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