1. What are some of the barriers to solving the problem of world hunger?
2. What role do the concepts of self esteem and empowerment play in the solution of world hunger.
3. What are some of the ways organizations (such as The Hunger Project) and individuals are working and can work to help solve the problem of World Hunger?

• Buy Nothing Day

• EarthDay

• Self Esteem

• What's Fair?…Windstar EARTHcamp Curriculum
  Objective: to invite the students to understand how inequalities exist in the world and often lead to conflict, BUT there are ways through those conflicts. The students CAN make a difference!
  Materials: Play money--one envelop with $300, one envelop with $100, two envelops with $50. Price Sheet (to be posted after the groups are formed)-poster boards $50, plain white paper $10, markers $20, paints $30, glitter $30, scissors $15, pencils $10, glue $15, duct tape $5, construction paper $25.
  Activity: Break up the students into 4 groups of your choosing. Tell them this is a contest where each group is to make a poster that answers the question, "If you could give one gift to the world, what would it be?" Your materials are for sale and your envelop contains the money you can use to purchase them. But once bought, materials cannot be returned or exchanged at the "store."
  
  Tell them: The group with the fanciest, prettiest poster will win a prize.

  NOTE: The plan here is to have the groups work in close proximity to each other, close enough to hear the grumbling that this isn't fair. Hopefully, before long, they will bring up a lot of options to try to make things work out. These are the responses you want them to come up with!
  Discussion: When the groups have finished, allow each group to present their poster and discuss their method of designing it. Award the prize according to the stated criteria. Ask, "How would things have been different if everyone had the same amount of money to spend on supplies?" Be sure to thank the students if they indeed made an attempt to make the playing field equal.
  

• Improving Self-Concepts

• Harvest for Hope

• Poverty

• Feeling of Poverty
  
  
• Humanity Quest...Masks!

• Feeding Minds

• Know Hunger

Additional Resources

Websites:
Ecological Footprint Quiz
Cultural Viewpoints
Hunger Web
Windstar Living Lightly...Hunger
The Hunger Site
Network for Good
World Hunger Relief
Food for the Hungry
One
Live 8 Live
Causes of Hunger

Books:
Dalai Lama

Articles:
Hunger Notes by World Hunger.org

Resources:
World Food Day
Poverty USA Tour
World Hunger Facts 2006
Unicef

Food Donation Sites:
The Hunger Site
World Vision

Songs:
The Shortest Story by Harry Chapin

Get Involved!
30 Hour Famine...a youth activity!
Bread.org
Harry Chapin Grants
Save the Children

Journal Topic: What's Fair?

1. Read the words (or listen to a recording) of John Denver's song, "I Want To
Live." What is song about? What message do you think he was trying to
convey?

2. In your view, is the world as a fair place? Why or why not? If not, what
would you change to make the world more fair?

Student Self-Evaluation

Teacher Evaluation

1. The student used the journal question as a reflection after the program.
2. The student was able to answer the self-evaluation questions.