“Everyday we see on television victims of violence both in Brazil and around the world. However, many more people die because of hunger, which is also a form of violence.”

These words were written by 9-year-old Nicole Ribeiro Ferreira. The 3rd grade student at the Municipal School Padre Manuel de Paiva in Brazil won the Hunger Essay competition run for schools in the district of Guarulhos in the State of São Paulo. Schools all over Brazil included hunger in their lessons as part of Walk the World.

Nicole and her teacher Rosana Mio da Silva, 39, won a trip to visit the World Food Programme in Rome, Italy to meet the FightHunger.org staff.

Eric Sylvers has just started a 900 km walk from Passo del Gran San Bernando in the Alps on the Italian-Swiss border to Rome. He’s following the route of the ancient trail of the Via Francigena is a pilgrimage route that dates back to the 8th Century. The trail was first developed by the Longobards, whose empire spanned both sides of the Alps, and was used by pilgrims travelling from England to Rome. These days it is hardly known about. Eric, a journalist based in Milan who works for the International Herald Tribune is walking the route to help put it back on the map. But Eric is also raising awareness for the fight against child hunger too.