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Drew draws Angelina duty

(E!Online)
Updated: 2007-05-10 10:53



The esteemed Barrymore lineage can now count an ambassador among its
ranks.

Drew Barrymore has been tapped to be an Ambassador against Hunger for the
United Nation's World Food Program, the organization announced Wednesday.

"I am honored and humbled to accept this challenging and rewarding
assignment," said the 32-year-old actress, who will focus on improving
school feeding programs. "I can't think of any issue that is more
important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes
hungry."

Fresh from gracing the cover of People magazine's recent 100 Most
Beautiful People issue, Barrymore spoke from Washington, D.C., where she
was on Capitol Hill to help lobby Congress about passing draft
legislation that would expand the McGovern-Dole International Food for
Education and Child Nutrition Program, which regulates funding for school
meals.

"Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing��but it works
miracles," the Charlie's Angels star said. "School feeding not only fills
stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment,
attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child,
this program changes lives��and ultimately can impact the futures of poor
countries around the world in a profound way."

The actress, who's currently on the big screen with Eric Bana in Lucky
You and just hit DVD yesterday with Hugh Grant in Music and Lyrics,
recently returned from her second trip to Kenya, where she joined her
fellow Ambassador against Hunger, marathon world record-holder Paul
Tergat, to visit sites where U.N.'s World Food Project is in effect.

��We are delighted to have Drew Barrymore join our team," WFP executive
director Josette Sheeran said. "Her passion and commitment to changing
the world for the better��and of course the respect and admiration she
commands��will make her a wonderful champion for school feeding."

Barrymore joins a growing list of A-listers that includes Angelina Jolie
(an ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees), Michael
Douglas (a U.N. messenger of peace for non-proliferation), Brad Pitt,
George Clooney, Madonna, Don Cheadle, Leonardo DiCaprio and many others
who have in recent years added "improve global living conditions" to
their to-do lists.











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