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wfd educational links
Useful links to online resources for Educational Resources.
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Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger
http://www.feedingminds.org
Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger is a worldwide educational initiative about hunger issues for school children of all ages. The project provides classroom materials for teachers to help children and youth discuss and understand the problem of hunger in the world, with the hope of preparing them to help create a world free from hunger.
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Kids Can Make a Difference
http://www.kidscanmakeadifference.org
Kids Can Make A Difference® (KIDS), an educational program for middle- and high school students, focuses on the root causes of hunger and poverty, the people most affected, solutions, and how students can help. The major goal is to stimulate the students to take some definite follow-up actions as they begin to realize that one person can make a difference.
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kNOw Hunger
http://www.knowhunger.org
kNOw Hunger: is a ready-to-use, 6-unit social studies curriculum geared toward high school youth (a middle school curriculum will be available soon), and designed to enable educators to easily integrate social content materials into their classes. The complete curriculum can be used online or downloaded free of charge!
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Hunger No More!
http://www.hungernomore.org
Hunger No More is designed to help parishes open up a discussion of long-term issues related to hunger, poverty and powerlessness in the United States and the developing world.
The study engages people in a conversation about their faith—with prayerful reflection, dialogue and response—to understand how we can move closer to the promise of Revelation 7:16: "They shall hunger no more."
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National Peace Corps Association
http://www.globalteachnet.org
We are citizens who served in communities in more than 134 developing countries since the Peace Corps was created in 1961. That global experience defined our lives and changed our views of the world and of our role in that world. We are teachers, community activists, business leaders, government officials, members of Congress, ambassadors, social entrepreneurs, and other members of the Peace Corps family.
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I*Earn
http://www.iearn.org
Started in 1988, iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
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GEM Gateway to Educational Materials
http://www.thegateway.org
The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
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UNICEF
http://www.unicefusa.org
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Since 1947, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF has supported the work of the United Nations Children's Fund by raising support for its programs and increasing public awareness of the challenges facing the world's children. As the oldest of 37 national committees for UNICEF worldwide, the U.S. Fund is part of a global effort to advance humanity with health, education, equality and protection for every child.
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International Food Policy Research Institute
http://www.ifpri.org
IFPRI’s vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. The vision is based on the human right to adequate food and nutrition and recognition of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family. It is a world where every person has secure access to sufficient and safe food to sustain a healthy and productive life and where decisions related to food are made transparently and with the participation of consumers and producers.
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Cyber School Bus
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org
The UN Cyberschoolbus captures the growing potential of the Internet as an educational tool and provides an effective medium with which to disseminate information and resources about international affairs, as well as bring together diverse communities of students and educators from around the world.
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Heifer International
http://www.readtofeed.org
Heifer International invites you to join in the fun and excitement, while doing something to make the world a better place! Through Read to Feed®, you can help hungry people all over the world to be better fed, proud and self-reliant. Kids! You have the power to be part of hopeful solutions to some very tough global problems!
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The Growing Connection
http://www.thegrowingconnection.org/
School children in the U.S. and Ghana, with their families, teachers, agriculturalists, scientists and leading businesses are joining The Growing Connection to grow fresh food, to learn the science of growing food, and to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition at home and around the world.
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The Food Force
http://www.food-force.com
From the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian agency, Food Force is an educational video game telling the story of a hunger crisis on the fictitious island of Sheylan.
Comprised of 6 mini-games or “missions”, the game takes young players from an initial crisis assessment through to delivery and distribution of food aid, with each sequential mission addressing a particular aspect of this challenging process.
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