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Global Citizen Corps
This youth organization is committed to fighting global poverty. The site requires registration in order to access the tools it provides for young people wanting to make a difference. But there is plenty of information on issues such as...
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Action Against Hunger: Acf Usa
Non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to saving lives by "eliminating hunger through prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition, especially during and after emergency situations of conflict, war and natural disaster".
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Air Serv International
Non-profit transportation organization that flies relief agencies around the world where humanitarian aid is needed.
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Care
Home page for CARE, the global help agency. Page lists current crisis areas around the world.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Hunger in the World
A great series of interactive lessons for students to examine world hunger in a visual, easy-to-understand way.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What Makes the Writer Write?
This lesson plan engages students in reading and research related to the Victorian Era. Students will analyze this time period's influence on the writings of Charles Dickens. Then students will analyze how today's authors incorporate...
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Canadian Geographic: A Developing World
CIDA, in partnership with Canadian Geographic, have created a resource which allows students to investigate the quality of life in over 200 countries by examining various Human Development Index indicators. Students may search by...
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Global Communities: Partners for Good
The fight against worldwide poverty is the main goal of Global Communities (formerly CHF International). See fact sheets, pictures, videos, and more resources about their programs.
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Freedom From Hunger
Freedom from Hunger is a non-profit, nongovernmental organization that helps to fight chronic hunger and poverty.
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Stop Hunger Now
Stop Hunger Now is a non-profit, international relief organization that works to feed the hungry world wide with direct aid.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres
"MSF is an independent humanitarian medial aid agency committed to two objectives: providing medical aid wherever needed, regardless of race, religion, politics or sex and raising awareness of the plight of te people we help".
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: International Committee of the Red Cross History
Article from the Nobel Peace Prize organization that discusses the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has figured in the Nobel Peace Prize four times.
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Operation Blessing Relief and Development Corporation
International relief and development organization that strives to combat hunger, deprivation and physical affliction for those in need.
United Nations
United Nations: Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Learn the eight goals that the United Nations had set forth for the Millennium and read about how we have been doing. There is also a link to a new site where the UN has set seventeen new goals for 2016 and beyond.
The World Bank
World Bank Group: Data by Topic
Links to data which cover agriculture, education, environment, health and population and other issues regarding economic development.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Poverty
Poverty shows children in unclean conditions and asks your student to write a description of what they think life is like for these children.
Columbia University
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Bringing people together to discuss Earth's environmental problems, The Earth Institute addresses climate change, environmental degradation, poverty, disease, and sustainable use of resources.
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Care: Virtual Field Trips Archive: Guatemala
Take a virtual field trip to Guatemala along with eight high school students from Atlanta and Chicago as they work with Guatemalan families to fight poverty.
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The Feminization of Poverty: Past and Future
Very extensive report on the poverty trends among females in the U.S. and the reasons for these trends. Also contains information on recent and past poverty rates and ratios.
World Food Programme
Wfp: World Food Programme
WFP is a United Nations organization whose mission is to eradicate global hunger and poverty. Their primary beneficiaries are victims of natural disasters, displaced people, the world's hungry poor, and women.
World Food Programme
Free Rice
This vocabulary and grammar site provides free quizzes. The site will donate grains of rice to the World Hunger Programme for each correct answer.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Feed the Hungry With Food Stamp Programs
This collection uses primary sources to the history of food stamp programs.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
This collection uses primary sources to explore Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun.
British Library
British Library: Dickens's a Christmas Carol: Poverty, Money and Miserliness
In this activity, students will consider the economic and political context that informs Charles Dickens's famous novella, A Christmas Carol.