---
title: "5th Annual Feed the World Week - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "5th Annual Feed the World Week: from IVU News 2000 October 15-21, 2000, will mark the 5th annual observance of Feed the World Week (FWW). During this week, Food for Life volunteers and concerned vegetarians in over 60 countries will serve out "karma-free "vegetarian meals to the world!"
url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/5697-news-oct2000-feed-the-world.html"
date: "2026-11-06T00:16:34+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  5th Annual Feed the World Week

![5th Annual Feed the World Week](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/news-oct2000-feed-the-world.png)
 **5th Annual Feed the World Week** *from IVU News 2000*

October 15-21, 2000, will mark the 5th annual observance of Feed the World Week (FWW). During this week, Food for Life volunteers and concerned vegetarians in over 60 countries will serve out "karma-free "vegetarian meals to the world!

Feed the World Week is an open community event for raising awareness of the word's hunger problem that results in 15 million deaths annually.

To find out how you can participate in Feed the World Week, visit the Food for Life web site at **[www.ffl.org](http://www.ffl.org/)**.

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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