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Do something.org
Do Something is a nationwide network of young people who know they can make a difference in their communities and take action to change the world around them. As part of Do Something, young people are asked what they want to do to make...
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International Rescue Committee
"The IRC is a global leader in emergency relief, rehabilitation, protection of human rights, post-conflict development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression."
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.
World Food Programme
Free Rice: English Vocabulary
This vocabulary game helps students learn vocabulary and while earning free rice to feed the hungry. When they answer correctly, the next word gets more difficult and 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food...
The History Place
The History Place: Irish Potato Famine
The History Place provides complete history of the Irish Potato Famine and life in Ireland in the 19th century.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Save the Children
Explains the origin and history of the Save the Children global relief organization, as well as its campaigns, structure and accountability, and controversies it has faced.
BBC
Bbc: Report Reveals Global Slum Crisis
Outlines the problems of the urban populations in Subsaharan African countries. Examines why the people move into these communities and why they get stuck there. (16 June 2006)
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Lesson Plan: Writing a Haiku
Check out this lesson on haiku that includes samples by Richard Wright. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational tool.
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Reading Group guides.com: Black Boy
This site features a reading group lesson plan for the book "Black Boy" by Richard Wright. Students and teachers will benefit from the informational discussion questions listed.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation: Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes is presented in this brief biography, drawing attention to political and social messages which are camouflaged by vivid use of nature in her writings. See "Lorna Dee Cervantes Activities" for related materials.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Grosz
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on George Grosz in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
Ancestry
Ireland: The Famine Years
This site offers information about the famine years. Using a map of Ireland, authors discuss the percentages of the population living in the lowest class housing and the devastating effects of the famine.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Some Countries Are Poor and Others Rich
The School of Life helps to explain why some countries prosper and others stagnate.
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California Newsreel Teacher's Guide: Black Boy
Have you ever read any of Richard Wright's work? This site offers an extensive crosscurricular Teacher's Guide that includes questions for research and writing.
eSchool Today
E School Today: World Poverty
Understand the meaning of poverty, and how widespread poverty affects communities across the world.
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Macrohistory: Sargon the Great, Sumerians and Babylon
The decline of Sumer was caused by salinization which led to hunger and malnutrition. Sargon the Great easily defeated the weakened Sumerians to establish the Akkadian empire. Study the rise and fall of the Akkadian empire and view a...
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World Relief
World Relief is a faith-based, non-profit, relief organization that originated within the National Association of Evangelicals. They work to "relieve human suffering, poverty and hunger worldwide".
BBC
Bbc: Niger Food Crisis Timeline
Beginning with the drought in 2004, this timeline, traces the Niger food crisis to July 2005. (20 July 2005)
World Food Programme
Free Rice: Learn Spanish Vocabulary and Give Free Rice
Play this web game and learn new Spanish vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program. There are ten levels of difficulty.
World Food Programme
Free Rice: Learn About Famous Paintings and Give Free Rice
Play this web game and learn about famous paintings and their artists while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program.
World Food Programme
Free Rice: Learn German Vocabulary and Give Free Rice
Play this game and learn new German vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program.
World Food Programme
Free Rice: Learn French Vocabulary and Give Free Rice
Play this web game and learn new French vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program. There are ten levels of difficulty.
World Food Programme
Free Rice: Learn Italian Vocabulary and Give Free Rice
Play this web game and learn new Italian vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program.
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Ima World Health
This is the homepage of the IMA World Health, whose mission is to provide essential products and services for emergency, health and development programs of interest to members, which serve people in need without regard to ethnicity,...
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