WHY Kids

Kids Can Make A Difference is an innovative educational program for middle and high school students. It helps them understand the root causes of hunger and poverty and how they can take action.

Since 1994, KIDS educational and community service program has brought enlightenment to thousands of children around the globe. Here are just a few of the actions that KIDS-inspired students have taken against hunger in their communities:

• Producing an award-winning video about hunger and its solutions.
• Writing letters to U.S. Senators promoting local hunger initiatives.
• Writing and phoning editors of local news media to raise hunger awareness and highlight their upcoming hungry advocacy activities.
• Conducting food drives for local food pantries.
• Launching and conducting their own classes on hunger and poverty in their schools and religious education classes.
• Increasing awareness of relatives, neighbors and friends about the causes and problems of hunger and poverty.

The KIDS program includes:

• Teacher guide: Finding Solutions to Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference.
• Website: rated by Education World as one of the top 20 websites for educators.
• Newsletter: published three times a year and reaches more than 2,500 readers.

Just as the number of children who have been and could be inspired by KIDS is limitless, so are their ideas on solving hunger and poverty in their world. To visit the KIDS web site, click here. To return to the WHY web site, hit the "back" button on your toolbar.

Finding Solutions To Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference, an innovative Teacher Guide developed by WHY board member and teacher Stephanie Kempf, is published by World Hunger Year. The Guide contains many of the activities and information used with the classes taught by KIDS teachers, and can be used with or without a KIDS teacher. The lessons are designed to be incorporated into many subject areas.

For more information, the following link will take you to the Kids Can Make A Difference - Teacher Guide Web page. Please note that you will be leaving the WHY web site. You can return by hitting the "back" button on your toolbar.