TABLE OF CONTENTS
2005 Finding Solutions To Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference
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Acknowledgments............................................................................... vi
HUNGER FACTS................................................................................ viii
CHOICES: A Letter to Students From the Director of
World Hunger Year.......................................................... ix
World Hunger Year............................................................................... x
The Kids Can Make A DifferenceŽ Program......................................x
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................1
NOTES TO TEACHERS.......................................................................3
UNIT I: WHAT IS HUNGER? ......................................................7
Lesson 1: Food Keeps Us Alive! - A Nutrition Workshop......................9
Lesson 2: Eating The Way The World Eats......................................... ...17
Lesson 3: How Big Is The Hunger Problem?....................................... ...23
Lesson 4: Hunger Destroys.............................................................. ......27
Lesson 5: Two Kinds of Hunger: Famine & Chronic Hunger............... ....33
Lesson 6: The Power of One............................................................. ....53
UNIT II: WHY ARE PEOPLE HUNGRY? .....................................59
Lesson 7: If There Is Enough Food, Why Are People Hungry?............. ...61
Lesson 8: Is Overpopulation A Root Cause of Hunger?....................... ....67
Lesson 9: One Planet, Two Worlds.................................................... ....73
Lesson 10: The Legacy of Colonialism ................................................ .....79
Lesson 11: Development - Who Benefits? ........................................... .....94
Lesson 12: Is U.S. Foreign Aid Working To End Hunger? ........................107
Lesson 13: The Importance of Female Education .....................................113
Lesson 14: Hunger Hurts Us All ............................................................... 125
Lesson 15: Hunger, USA: Children, The Elderly, ...................................... 129
The Working Poor, Racial & Ethnic Minorities,
Single Mothers
Lesson 16: Working & Eating.................................................................. 145
Lesson 17: The Homeless ........................................................................ 157
Lesson 18: The Media ............................................................................. 181
Lesson 19: The Grapes of Wrath.............................................................. 193
Lesson 20: ANCIENT FUTURES: Learning From Ladakh...................... 201
UNIT III: WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP END HUNGER?..........211
Lesson 21: Find Out What People Think ...................................................213
Lesson 22: Shine A Light On Hunger........................................................ 215
Lesson 23: Combine Our Talents.............................................................. 219
Lesson 24: Write Letters.......................................................................... 221
Lesson 25: Give Testimony...................................................................... 225
RESOURCE GUIDE.............................................................................. 227