According to Reuters, Actress Drew Barrymore donated $1 million of her own money on Monday to the World Food Programme that the U.N. agency said would be used to feed thousands of schoolchildren in Kenya.
Barrymore, 33, a WFP ambassador against hunger, announced her pledge on The Oprah Winfrey Show to kick off the agency's $3 billion "Fill the Cup" campaign that aims to feed 59 million hungry school children in developing countries for a year.
The WFP is facing a $500 million gap in funding this year due to the rising cost of food -- up 40 percent since June, WFP officials said. That prompted the actress to visit the world's largest grain trading floor in the Chicago Board of Trade building on Monday where corn, wheat, soybean and rice futures trade.
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