A Legacy of Giving : How to advocate and help those with food insecurity?
1. Students research the issue area and take notes to learn.
2. Students plan and strategize how to help. (Use the rubric handed out to you.)
3. Students promote their plan campus wide by making products, posters, and other advertisements. (Use the rubric as a guide.)
4. Students carry out a coat and can drive to help those in need.
When researching food insecurity and hunger, look for these main ideas:
Food Insecurity Stories
2. Students plan and strategize how to help. (Use the rubric handed out to you.)
3. Students promote their plan campus wide by making products, posters, and other advertisements. (Use the rubric as a guide.)
4. Students carry out a coat and can drive to help those in need.
When researching food insecurity and hunger, look for these main ideas:
- Facts and statistics on problem
- Setting(s) of greatest need or local status of problem
- Cause(s) of problem
- Solutions/suggestions for actions
- Organizations/contact info for people already working with problem
- What else they need/want to know
Food Insecurity Stories
- What Children Understand about Food Insecurity
- Feeding America Stories
- Small Plates PDF file on stories
- A personal story- Never Give Up the Fight: Food Insecure
- A New Face of Hunger - National Geographic
- Food Tank https://foodtank.com/
- Edible School Yard
- Super Kids Nutrition
- Campaign for a commercial free childhood
- Maps of Texas and cities from UT Library (good for powerpoints)
- More about Fundraising
- Kids Make a Difference
- Central Texas Food Bank – local: https://www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/
- Meals on Wheels & More – local: www.mealsonwheelsandmore.org
- Green Corn Project – local: http://www.greencornproject.org/
- Hunger Volunteer Connection – local to national: http://www.hungervolunteerconnection.org/how-to-get-involved
- Action Against Hunger – global: http://www.aah-usa.org/
- CARE – global: http://www.careusa.org/