Without World Food Day and the organizations involved with Its celebration. the groundswell needed that made all the media events possible concerning hunger would never have existed. Yet. despite the impressive outpouring of support. the problem of world hunger persists. According to recent reports 2 million people are at risk of starving in Sudan. The worsening famine and misery there was of great concern to Mickey and It was during one of his many visits to Sudanese refugee camps in Ethiopia that he was taken from us. Estimates for the number of deaths range as high as 1 million. and perhaps as many as 3 million people remain at risk of starvation. In Aweil. southeast of Khartoum. 2.481 people died in May and June of hunger.