Drew Barrymore, UN Ambassador? Actress Leads the UN's World Food Program

Drew Barrymore seems an unlikely candidate for an ambassador for stopping world hunger, but that is exactly what she is becoming.

The actress, 32, has been involved recently in fighting world hunger in Kenya after being named a United Nations Ambassador in the UN's World Food Program. She related to Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Situation Room" how she got involved. She states that she has become interested in documentary as a medium and was specifically interested in world hunger after reading about school feeding programs in the New York Times. She then contacted the UN to see if there were any opportunities for her to go to Africa to do a documentary on world hunger.

The rest seems to have just fallen into place. She has gone to Africa numerous times since contacting the UN. And don't take her for another prim and proper celebrity. Barrymore has actually been down to the schools, interacted with the children and seen what it is like to live in the poverty-stricken conditions. The children in those countries are given one cup of food per day if they go to school. For many those children, it is the only food they get all day, and most of them actually take that food home to share with their families.

So where does this all lead to? More children coming to school to get their one cup of food a day leads to more educated individuals in the world. More education leads to a larger capacity for peace and understanding in the world.

Barrymore has made it her mission to bring information to the masses about what they can be doing to help people in other countries. She has taken her role as an American celebrity, a recognizable personality, seriously and has decided to use it for good. Not many celebrities get so involved as to be named an ambassador. Drew Barrymore has gone beyond her call of duty and has used her status to bring life to these children who otherwise would not have made it.

The documentary project she directed, Choose or Lose Presents: The Best Place to Start presented an unbiased look into politics and today's youth. It asked the question, why are so many of today's young citizens not voting? In it public political figures were interviewed, as well as pop culture icons. Barrymore explores the lack of interest most young adults display when it comes to voting for their country's leaders.

Whether she is acting in the latest romantic comedy, directing a documentary about voting or world hunger, or being an Ambassador for the United Nations, Drew Barrymore is setting out and breaking out of the typical "actress" mold and spreading her wings into deeper territories. Love her or hate her, you cannot deny the good she is doing in the world today.