The Premier League is backing the Professional Football Against Hunger Campaign.
The project is being run by the Association of European Professional Football Leagues in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
They have launched the 1billionhungry.com global petition to encourage governments to act on the fact that there are now one billion hungry in the world.
And the Premier League have been swift to lend their backing to this worthwhile cause.
Manchester City midfielder Patrick Vieira and Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards attended the launch in Rome.
And Manchester United defender Gary Neville has recorded a special message of support.
He said: "One billion people in the world live in chronic hunger. We have to stop it. We can stop it together with the FAO."
Several other top European players in Real Madrid's Raul and Sporting Lisbon's Moutinho voiced their anger about world hunger on the video, click here to view. The EPFL will also sponsor a "Match Day against Hunger" later in the year.
EPFL Statement
"In a world in growing turbulence, where essential values seem to be at stake, the fight for human rights cannot slow down. It must not slow down. It will not slow down
"This is the moral duty of our generation, the challenge of our civilisation.
"And the way we choose to deal with it will determine the way future generations will look up to us and History will judge the political leaders of our time.
"The need to accelerate the fight against hunger and poverty worldwide has never been so vital, so decisive and so urgent.
"We need to live up to the expectations of those who have little or nothing to put on the table.
"We need to respond to the hopes of one sixth of the world's population, more than 1 billion human beings, with sense of responsibility.
"We need to respond to their call, not with indifference, but with commitment. Not with individualism, but with solidarity. Not with resignation, but with proactive spirit and unbreakable belief that each of us - each one of you - can truly make the difference.
"That's why we are here with FAO at the forefront of this humanitarian cause.
"That's why we will now sign the "1 Billion Hungry Petition" and urge others to do the same.
"That's why we will organise, once more, an "EPFL/FAO Match Day Against Hunger" on 23/24th October 2010. So that, in every stadium, across the whole Europe, all EPFL Member Leagues, clubs, players and football fans can speak out, loudly, a common message.
"It is a message that uses the power of football and calls all nations, all leaders and all men and women of good will to unite efforts, to mobilise resources and help us win this cause for the most basic and fundamental human right: the right of food and human dignity."
Hansi Muller, on behalf of all Football Ambassadors : "I have experienced and saw with my eyes, during the EPFL Field Visit to FAO TeleFood project in Egypt, the struggling conditions of hundreds of kids suffering for hunger and starvation. There are millions of them all around the globe.
Football has an unquestionable power to mobilise and sensitise the public opinion. It's our moral duty, as public personalities, to give back something to society, supporting social causes like this".
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