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Teachers against hunger

Students In Washington D.C. Get Creative To Design Solve Hunger Advocacy Campaign

 As teachers, when your students explore a new concept in the classroom you want them to think critically about it and not just memorize facts. For Tim Coleman, a service learning teacher at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Washington D.C., that meant coming up with a creative project that would challenge his middle school students to really engage with the issue of hunger and consider its global impact. 

When A School Meal Meets A Girl’s Dream

 It was dawn in Tanzania, and a group of ten determined women – 7 from Nepal, 3 from Africa – took a deep breath as they reached the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. They were the first all-women team to scale it. What was the first thing they did to celebrate? They unfurled the blue and white World Food Programme flag -- and then they raised it high. 

Be The Difference For Hungry Syrian Families

Crayons. Paper. Paint. Welcome to art class, where kids around the globe dive into their imaginations to create their own worlds. This art class, however, is inside Kilis Refugee Camp in Turkey. Its students: young refugees who were forced to flee their homes in Syria because of conflict and violence. As they put crayon to paper, out pours memories – of home, of the conflict, of their frightening journey to the refugee camp where they are now safe. It’s troubling to see the very real images of Kalashnikovs and other guns and tanks they pull from their imaginations. The home they remember is part refuge, part war zone; and it’s clear just how much these kids have been through.

Students against Hunger: the Blog

Spring has sprung with WFP in Germany

“The coldest March in 125 years” – those are headlines read in newspapers across Europe, including those in Germany. WFP welcomed spring by giving away free seed packets to a local primary school in Berlin.

Communities Nourishing Communities: We Call It Progress

Imagine if the meal you ate for lunch every day at school was made from ingredients grown only a few kilometres away. That’s the reality for Mebrat and Bizunesh, students at Harifa Chafa Primary School in Ethiopia. Their nutritious WFP school meals – a porridge made of bean and maize flour, vegetable oil, and salt – don’t just give them the energy to succeed in the classroom: most of the food is grown by farmers in their community through WFP’s Purchase for Progress programme.

One Romanian Student Brings Hunger Into Focus In Her Community

Meet Eliza. She’s a high school student in Romania who until recently had never learned about hunger or its scope and seriousness in the world. Then, she dove into learning about food security for a film contest – and now there’s no turning back. Here’s her story of how creating the film inspired her to become an advocate in the fight against hunger.