Lesson Plans
- Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger (Future Harvest)
Provides lesson plans by grade level to help students understand what is needed to help end world hunger. 10-01
Lists
- Childhood Hunger Factsheet (Second Harvest)
- Food Banks by State Search (Second Harvest)
Finds food banks by state.
- Hunger Relief Efforts Globally (Relief Web)
- Hunger and Poverty Heroes in Communities (grass-roots.org) 10-00
- Hunger and Poverty Resources
- Hunger and Poverty Resources (World Hunger Year) 10-00
- Rescue Missions by Country, State, or City (Association of Gospel Rescue Missions) 1-01
News
- 11-01-03 More Families Now Hungry (CBS News)
"About 12 million American families last year worried that they couldn't afford to buy food, and 32 percent of them actually experienced someone going hungry at one time or another, the Agriculture Department said Friday." 11-03
- 11-25-03 Setback in War on Hunger (CNN News)
"World hunger is growing again after a steady fall in the first half of the 1990s, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization." 11-03
- 11-28-02 Lula Elected President of Brazil (World Press Review - Rapoza)
Provides goals of the new President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. According to Lula, "My first year will focus on combating hunger." "The program, inspired by former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s food stamp initiative, is expected to cost roughly US$1.5 million. Funding will come from the federal budget, half of which has already been designated to combat hunger. An estimated 46 million Brazilians eat less than 2 square meals a day, according to a government survey. The program aims to provide an additional 76 reals monthly for 20 percent of the 46 million by the end of 2003, in a country where the minimum wage is 200 reals per month."
"The markets will be watching to make sure Brazil doesn’t invest too much of its cash in projects that are unlikely to generate revenue and will increase the country’s US$288 billion public debt."
"Lula has sought to reassure investors by saying the only way Brazil would be forced to default on its debt is if it were to continue on its present economic course, which he says relies on attracting investment dollars in high-yield government bonds rather than through investment in the productive economy."
- 11-28-02 Zimbabwe Faces Starvation of Millions (BBC News)
" 'We are approaching the very worst period of the crisis, when 6.7 million Zimbabweans will need food aid and yet WFP does not even have the resources to meet our target of three million beneficiaries in November,' " according to the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP).
" 'It is an extremely serious situation and it is only going to get worse,' " said Kevin Farrell, WFP representative in Zimbabwe." " 'We will all have to work non-stop over the coming months if we are to prevent millions of people from starving in Zimbabwe.' "
- 11-28-03 More Hungry This Year (CBS News)
"...for the third year in a row, the number of hungry Americans has been rising. The government now says 35 million Americans don't know where their next meal is going to come from, and that number includes 13 million children." 11-03
- 11-28-03 West Sahara - Urgent Need for Food (AllAfrica.com)
"The United Nations has appealed to donors to urgently contribute funds to ensure the regular delivery of food to 165,000 largely forgotten refugees from the Western Sahara, who have lived in camps in the Algerian desert for the past 28 years." 12-03
Papers
- Fighting Hunger Globally - World Food Prize (WorldFoodPrize.org)
"By pioneering ways to restore fertility to the poorest and most degraded soils in Latin America and Africa, the 2002 World Food Prize Laureate, Dr. Pedro A. Sanchez, has made a major contribution to preserving our delicate ecosystem, while at the same time offering great hope to all those struggling to survive on marginal lands around the world." 8-02
- Future for Malnourished Children - Gloomy (Future Harvest)
Provides a summary of progress in reducing malnutrition world wide. It suggests that, unless some small changes are made, very little progress will be made over the next 20 years, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. 10-01
- Helping Programs for Families in Need in Oregon (Oregon State University Extension Service)
Provides assistance information for families in need. 5-03
- Helping Programs for Families in Need in Oregon (OregonHelps.org)
Provides assistance with Food Stamps, Oregon Health Plan, Employment Related Day Care (ERDC), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Federal Housing Assistance, Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Federal Earned Income Tax Credit and Oregon's Earned Income Credit, Oregon's Working Family Tax Credit, Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), National School Lunch Program, Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program(WIC), and Emergency Food. Provides information in English, Spanish, Russian, and Vietnamese. 5-03
- Hunger - Fighting Hunger (The Hunger Project)
Provides information about projects to help end world hunger. 10-01
- Hunger In The U.S. (applesforhealth)
Some 31 million impoverished Americans suffer from hunger despite the nation's historic economic boom. That's according to a report released Thursday by Bread for the World, a charitable organization dedicated to fighting hunger. 03-03-00.
- Hunger Still Problem In U.S. (applesforhealth)
Hunger is still a problem in the United States - despite a thriving economy. 10-29-99.
- Hunger in America (Mazon) 3-01
- Hunger in the United States (National Priorities Project)
"Almost 12% of households in the nation experienced food insecurity at some point during 2001. This means that 34 million people, 13 million of whom are children, did not have access to enough food for "active, healthy living" as defined by the federal government." 2-04
- Nurture a Nursery (Future Harvest)
Provides a program to help plant trees to relieve hunger in Africa. 10-01
- Organizations Fighting Hunger Together (Interaction)
 "InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations." List key organizations providing assistance in each global campaign. 2-03
- Saving Soil and Trees While Fighting Hunger (Washington Post)
"Dr. Pedro Sanchez loves dirt. The prize-winning soil scientist says that poor quality soil is the cause of many of the evils that plague poor countries, from hunger and poverty to environmental devastation caused by slash-and-burn farming."
"...Sanchez has helped teach 150,000 small-scale African farmers how to boost grain production by bettering their dirt — that is, by replenishing soil nutrients with nitrogen from native vegetation and phosphates from rocks."
"As a result, those farmers can feed their families without having to burn more forests to get fertile land." 8-02
- Workplace Giving Campaigns (Charity.org)
Projects
- Donating to Help the Neediest Cases (New York Times)
Provides information for contributing to the Neediest Cases program of the New York Times. 11-02
- Food Donations (Oregon Food Bank )
Provides the opportunity to make donations to food pantries or volunteer for the hungry. 6-01
- Hunger (thehungersite)
Provides donations to reduce world hunger by your clicking on the "free donation" button. 7-99
- Hunger - Removing the Roots of Hunger (Share Our Strength)
Provides opportunities for helping to end hunger and the causes of hunger. 7-00
- Hunger Facts (Kids Can Make a Difference)
Provides information, such as the number of children dying from hunger each day.
- Hunger Resources (GreaterGood.com)
Provides opportunities for schools to conduct online fund raising. Also supports other projects, such as combating world hunger. 10-00
- International Union of Gospel Missions (IUGM)
- Kids Can Make a Difference Program (Kids Can Make a Difference)
- Volunteering Opportunities for Kids (PBS - Zoom into Action)
Provides opportunities for kids to volunteer to help animals, the hungry, the homeless, those who are ill, seniors, the environment, and more. May load slowly. 2-02
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