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92 WORLD RUGBY YEAR IN REVIEW 2015A PARTNERSHIP TO TACKLE HUNGERA TICKET TO THE GAME, A TICKET TO A NUTRITIOUS SCHOOL MEALA WFP school meal provides an incentive for a child to attend school and obtain an education. For RWC 2015, fans raised more than £215,000 through voluntary donations during ticket sales, enough for up to one million school meals for children in Senegal!RUGBY WORLD CUP WINNING CAPTAINS TAKE ON SWAZILANDA sobering 30 per cent of Swaziland’s children suffer from stunting as a result of malnutrition. WFP is working to improve this and provided food to more than 50,000 orphaned and vulnerable children in the country in 2015. As Ambassadors of the Tackle Hunger campaign, former Rugby World Cup winning captains David Kirk (New Zealand) and Nick Farr-Jones (Australia) visited the land-locked country in 2003 to raise awareness of child hunger.RUGBY AID MATCH RAISES ALMOST $3.5 MILLION FOLLOWING THE 2004 TSUNAMIFollowing the 2004 Asian tsunami, the rugby family rallied around to host a rugby aid match at Twickenham, which raised almost $3.5 million for WFP’s tsunami appeal. The money raised by the match was vitally important to WFP’s long-term relief in Asia and also played a crucial role in raising awareness about the scale of the disaster.LEFT TO RIGHTTackle Hunger’s Million Meal Challenge at RWC 2015 provided one million nutritious school meals in Senegal; David Kirk performing the Haka in Swaziland as Ambassador of the Tackle Hunger campaign; fans gather to support the Tackle Hunger rugby aid match following the 2004 tsunamiAs the best teams in the world contested Rugby World Cup 2015, the global rugby family was taking part in a challenge both on and off the pitch to raise awareness and funds to support the UN World Food Programme (WFP) push for zero hunger.An amazing SIX MILLION meals approximately were generated for WFP school meals and emergency relief programmes worldwide through donations raised during a broad-reaching campaign which had a phenomenal response.Just as good nutrition is important to play rugby, the Tackle Hunger partnership established between World Rugby and WFP in 2003 looks to ensure that children get the food they need to reach their full physical and intellectual potential.Here we take a look at just some of the many ways World Rugby and its stakeholders have been supporting WFP over the years…How World Rugby is supporting the UN World Food Programme.TACKLE HUNGER TOGETHER AT RWC 2015One in nine people in the world do not have enough to eat and in many places, the only meal a child will have is at school. For RWC 2015, WFP and World Rugby worked with tournament host broadcaster ITV to Tackle Hunger Together and raise money for school meals and emergencies globally. In excess of £1 million was raised overall, a fantastic response showing the passion of the rugby family and their solidarity with those children and families supported by WFP.RUGBY BUILDS CHARACTER | SPIRIT OF RUGBY