KIDS is an innovative educational program for middle- and high-school students. It helps them understand the root causes of hunger and poverty and how they-as individuals-can take action.
The KIDS program includes a teacher guide, newsletter, and website. The teacher guide, Finding Solutions to Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference, has provided thousands of classrooms, religious schools, after school programs and home schooling programs with tools to help young people understand the root causes of hunger and become informed and effective citizens with a healthy sense of their own capacity to change the world. Students learn about the pain of hunger; the importance of food; the inequality of its distribution; the links between poverty, hunger, joblessness; and homelessness; the role of the media; and are given the skills to take what they have learned into their communities.
The KIDS newsletter, published three times a year, features writers from many disciplines. The articles highlight issues related to hunger and poverty, showcase students initiatives, and feature teachers’ experiences teaching the KIDS program and students’ experiences making a difference in their communities and world.
The KIDS website (www.kidscanmakeadifference.org), rated by Education WorldTM as one of the top 20 websites for educators, provides news; hunger quiz; hunger facts; suggested books; back issues of the newsletter; the table of contents, a sample lesson, and the program notes from the teacher guide; and much more.
For more detailed information about who we are, please see below:
Home | Teacher Guide | Hunger Quiz
Kids Newsletter | Kids Speak | Who We Are
Hunger Facts | What Kids Can Do
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For further information on the program and how you can become involved, contact: kids@kidscanmakeadifference.org.
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