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Under the Young Global Leader Health Initiative, a group of YGLs in Japan have developed a programme called "Table for Two". The group is led by James Condo in collaboration with other Young Global Leaders: Moto Furukawa, Mitsuru Chino, Nobuo Domae, Hiroshi Nakata, and Keiichiro Asao.
The program seeks to simultaneously address: obesity and lifestyle related diseases in developed countries; and hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. Every time one eats a healthy meal at cooperating company cafeterias in developed countries, 20 cents is donated to fund a healthy school meal in a developing country.
25 January 2007
Table for Two at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008
Table for Two was provided to participants twice during lunches at the Annual Meeting. Watch the video by Deutsche Welle for the report.
3 December 2007
Young Global Leaders’ “Table for Two” initiative launches first Chapter in India at the Indian Economic Summit
TheIndian chapter of TABLE FOR TWO was launched at the Indian Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum by a group of Young Global Leaders who have committed to simultaneously target hunger in the developing world and obesity in developed countries.
Today, two Indian based-companies, Dabur India Ltd and Godrej Industries have announced their commitment to join the initiative and start the Indian Chapter which will benefit children to increase attendance to school and thus education.
Eighty percent of proceeds from the Indian chapter will go towards providing school meals in India. The remaining 20% will be pooled globally to help provide meals in the most desperate regions of the world, including Africa, and those areas affected by war and famine.
Read the press release...
Read the press release...
7 September 2007
Young Global Leaders hold Press Conference Table for Two at Dalian
The initiative, launched today during the Young Global Leader Annual Summit 2007 and the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People’s Republic of China, offers a unique and simple scheme to address hunger in the developing world and obesity and other life-style related diseases in the developed world. Participated speakers were:
Young Global Leaders hold Press Conference Table for Two at Dalian
The initiative, launched today during the Young Global Leader Annual Summit 2007 and the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People’s Republic of China, offers a unique and simple scheme to address hunger in the developing world and obesity and other life-style related diseases in the developed world. Participated speakers were:
- Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum.
- James Kondo, President and Vice-Chairman, Health Policy Institute in Japan and Young Global Leader
- Zhizhong Yang, Managing Director and Head of China Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers
- Katshuhiko Nawano, Executive Vice-President, Japan Airlines.
24 August 2007
Healthy lunches will be offered at the Young Global Leader Annual Summit and in the Annual Meeting of New Champions. Twenty cents will be donated for every participant’s lunch payed by the World Economic Forum and Publicis Events to fund a school meal in a developing country. It is expected that around 1500 people will participate in both events that will support 9,000 school meals, equivalent to meals for around 45 children, a whole school class, throughout the year. See the flyer!
13 July 2007
To date, pilot programmes have been conducted in Japan at Family Mart; IBM Japan; Itochu; Japan Airlines; NEC; and Yokohama City Government. The donations to date from pilots will support around 40,700 school meals, equivalent to meals for around 200 students throughout the school year.
20 March 2007
A two-week pilot of the programmme was conducted in February at the headquarters of Itochu Corporation – a global trading firm where Claire Chino, a YGL, serves as the corporate counsel. The pilot was supported by Compass Group – the world's largest food service company. The 13,757 people who used the cafeteria during those two weeks made 3,878 purchases of healthy meals, bringing the total contribution from Itochu and Compass to 133,800 yen (about US$ 11,500). With school meals costing 20 cents per student, the donation will support year-around school meals for 30 students. The donation will be given to the World Food Programme, the largest provider of school meal programmes around the world.The event was covered broadly on national television (NHK and TV Tokyo), in key newspapers (Nikkei, Asahi, Jiji Tsushin), and magazines. If you are interested in learning more, please contact James Kondo at . The team is looking for institutions that would like to participate. Your healthy meal becomes their healthy meal!
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- Communicable diseases, outbreaks and pandemics
- Lifestyle and non-communicable diseases
- Biotechnology and bioethics
- Pharmaceutical policy
- Health financing
- Reproductive health and demographics
- Ageing, care deficits and human resources for health