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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. 

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. 

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Get Reading This Summer: The Books That Inspired Today’s Top Humanitarians

Wherever you see the blue and white WFP logo around the world, these are some of the people nearby making our work happen. The group of WFP staffers featured in this story come to their work with different points of view and life experiences, but they all share this: along the way, a book inspired them to do what they’re doing. 

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.