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Bread for the World: About Hunger

For Students 9th - 10th
Evaluation of how hunger and poverty are linked. Also included are the many facts and figures about poverty and hunger, and different problems leading to poverty throughout the world.
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Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Millennium Development Goals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine slum conditions around the world and analyze how the UN Millennium Development Goals are working with help from this excellent lesson plan.
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Pbs: Frontline: World: Dispatches: Nigeria: The Corruption of Oil

For Students 9th - 10th
An examination of the culture of corruption plaguing Nigeria stoked by its valuable oil fields and overwhelming levels of poverty.
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United Nations

United Nations: Millennium Development Goals and Beyond

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Introducing Global Development

For Students 9th - 10th
This exercise has five objectives: to find out how big the gap between rich and poor is, to learn a little more about the issues facing people with limited access to food around the world and the features and extent of malnutrition, to...
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Gapminder: Dollar Street

For Students 1st - 9th
In this collection of 30,000 photos from 46 countries, students will be assess "how people really live" around the world. Students can compare bathrooms, toys, and more. Students will explore different cultures, economics, geography,...
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Oxfam: Sudan

For Students 9th - 10th
Sudanese geography, history, environment, people and society as well as the work that Oxfam is doing in Sudan is described in this informative page from the international aid agency that fights poverty globally.
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Pbs Learning Media: Joab: The Class Prefect

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Wide Angle profiles Joab, a boy from Kibera, Kenya, who has returned to school after dropping out following his mother's death. Joab is chosen class prefect by the other students.

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