Shira, 11, is among over 150 students from the International School Bangkok who has become a Blogger Against Hunger. Copyright:WFP/Thailand

BANGKOK – “At first, I thought of the problem as there not being enough food in the world for everyone. But then I realized it was more complicated than that,” says Mii, 11. “I learned that there are many people trying to solve this problem with new and creative ideas”.

Creative ideas are just what emerged from Ms Robin Ulster’s seventh-grade class and their study of world hunger and poverty.

Bloggers Against Hunger

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As students at the International School Bangkok, they focused primarily on hunger in Asia, comparing the situations in Thailand with other countries in the region and holding debates about ways to help the people who live there.

Creative ideas

Play centres for AIDs orphans, solar-powered water wells and charity “rice drives” were just a few of the ideas put forward by students to combat poverty and hunger.

The lesson culminated with over 150 blog posts in which students explore the work of aid agencies like WFP and talk about what they can do to help stamp out hunger.

Shira, 13, said the experience inspired her “to try to inspire others” to do whatever they can to help. “I’ve learned many facts that you can read off a handout. But most importantly, I’ve developed my own way of thinking about the world. Me, a 13-year-old girl, came up with three solutions to help solve hunger.”

Signing up as WFP Bloggers Against Hunger has connected Ms Ulster’s class with a network of hundreds of other bloggers from all over the world committed to spreading awareness about the world’s one billion hungry people.

A learning experience

Ms Ulster said this was the first time she had devoted an entire school unit to studying world hunger, but planned on making it a fixed part of her class curriculum from here on out.

Now that we’ve done it once, we know it will be even better next year,” she said.