Greg Barrow
Greg Barrow is a Senior Public Affairs Officer for the United Nations World Food Programme in London. He has handled WFP's media response to humanitarian crises ranging from the conflict in Darfur and the Asian tsunami, to the Pakistan earthquake and the child malnutrition crisis in Niger. Before joining WFP, Greg worked for 15 years at the BBC. He was based in Africa as a foreign correspondent over a period of seven turbulent years from 1994 to 2001, in which he witnessed the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, the fall of the Mobutu regime in then Zaire, the U.N. withdrawal from Somalia, recurrent drought in southern Sudan, the devastating floods of 2000 in Mozambique, and the publication of the Truth Commission reports in South Africa. He left Africa in 2001, seeking peace and tranquility as the BBC's U.N. correspondent in New York, and promptly found himself in Manhattan on the day of the 9/11 attacks.
Credibility, not fame, makes a winning celebrity ambassador
By Greg Barrow
His fellow athletes call him "The Gentleman", but to hundreds of thousands of hungry children around the world, he is a "saint". Paul Tergat, the world marathon record holder, who'll be lacing up his shoes for another tilt at the Flora London Marathon this weekend, is dedicating his race to the cause of hungry children.
Few would place Paul Tergat in the same category as humanitarian celebrity ambassadors like David Beckham (UNICEF), or Angelina Jolie (UNHCR), but in his work for the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), Tergat has been no less effective in highlighting the issue of child malnutrition in his role as an "Ambassador Against Hunger".
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By Greg Barrow
His fellow athletes call him "The Gentleman", but to hundreds of thousands of hungry children around the world, he is a "saint". Paul Tergat, the world marathon record holder, who'll be lacing up his shoes for another tilt at the Flora London Marathon this weekend, is dedicating his race to the cause of hungry children.
Few would place Paul Tergat in the same category as humanitarian celebrity ambassadors like David Beckham (UNICEF), or Angelina Jolie (UNHCR), but in his work for the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), Tergat has been no less effective in highlighting the issue of child malnutrition in his role as an "Ambassador Against Hunger".
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