Students and Teachers

 

Teachers against hunger

Simple Tools to Help Teachers Introduce Students to Hunger Issues

Getting classrooms involved in the fight against hunger is important to WFP. For teachers who want to start teaching about hunger and food assistance, it can be tough to know where to start. Our website has several great options for crafting a lesson.

The Power of Freerice In The Hands Of An Inspirational Teacher

Melissa is a middle school teacher in the United States. If you walked through her school, you might notice colourful cut-out bowls of rice decorating the hallway. Why? Trying to teach her students new study skills that would stick, she discovered something powerful about her students to tap into: their desire to help others in a big way. She shared Freerice.com with her colleagues and was inspired as one classroom set a school goal of raising 1,000,000 grains of rice. Along the way, she noticed that the grains of rice donated for every correct answer got her students excited about learning and propelled them to discover new subjects – like foreign languages. Not only did study skills become a habit: so did making a difference on hunger.

We reached out to her to learn more and here’s what she had to say.
 

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. 

Students against Hunger: the Blog

You Can Help WFP for Free

We know students want help WFP fight hunger, but we also know donating money isn’t always realistic. Luckily, WFP has several ways to help fight hunger that don’t cost anything.

American College Student Uses App to Raise Money for WFP

For some, a long run is a simple personal achievement – a mountain to climb during the day. For others, like American college student Rachel Bergsieker, these personal achievements come with an even larger purpose.

Young Fans Deploy Creative Energy to Raise Funds for WFP

Some donations are like the froth skimmed off a cappuccino, an act of benevolence enabled by a life of work and fortune. But young people without a steady job must deploy their creative energies to fund-raise – whether re-purposing birthday gifts or staging rock concerts, like American Derick Schubert. Derick, who threw himself into raising funds for WFP as he was battling terminal cancer, is a poignant example among the hundreds of young people who each year mobilize awareness and funds to fight hunger: