Lauren Bush is a fashion model and the granddaughter of former President George
Bush. She also devotes much of her spare time to public service. She has worked
for many causes, including animal rights (she is a vegetarian) children's shelters,
hospitals, and in support of women re-entering the workforce. In 2004, while a
student at Princeton University, she was chosen by the United Nations World Food
Proramme (WFP) as an Honorary Spokesperson for a student campaign designed to
focus attention on global hunger on college campuses across the US. Since then
she has traveled with WFP to Africa, Asia and Latin America to bring attention
to the important work the World Food Programme is doing and the urgency of increased
support for their efforts. Each year the World Food Programme feeds over 20 million
children in more than 70 countries through their school feeding programs, but
another 400 million children still go hungry. In 2007, Lauren Bush and the WFP
launched The FEED project in partnership with Amazon.com. Lauren designed a tote
bag and tshirt to raise funds for WFP's school feeding programs. The proceeds
from each FEED Bag will feed a child for an entire year.
