Before solving global hunger, start in your town. Here are some simple things you can do RIGHT NOW to minimize Starvation:

KIDS: You have a voice. This means you too.

Buy extra non-perishable food items when you go to the grocery store and donate them to your local homeless shelter, food drive, food pantry or church.

• Propose an idea to your principal where people can donate to a fund that pays for a hot lunch for someone less fortunate. Re-worded: Pay for a hot lunch for a poor child at you or your child's school.
• Organize a food drive at your school or work.
• Adopt a poor family in your neighborhood. Supply them with a hot meal once a week or more and/or clean out your fridge and pantry once a month and donate all the foods that you will end up keeping too long because you'll never get around to using them. Everyone that is not poor waste a ton of food each year due to keeping items until they spoil.
• Volunteer your time at a shelter in your town.

Student Outreach

Student groups, service clubs, and U.S. schools have all been key allies in the fight against hunger. Schools throughout the U.S. have played a vital role in organizing school- and community-wide activities geared to raising money and awareness to fight world hunger. The following are several interactive projects that can educate your peers and communities while providing for an inspiring way to support concrete solutions for world hunger: Fast for AwarenessLearn what it is like to experience hunger. Host a Fast for Awareness in your school or community group. Fast for Awareness is a school or community-wide event to raise money and awareness about world hunger. It is a 24-hour fast, with no food but water and juice allowed, that allows participants to solicit sponsorships for fasting while experiencing something similar to what many in the world today feel on a regular basis. These guidelines are malleable to your event, location, and participants needs. There are many different ways to plan this event depending upon your targeted participants from a 24 hour lock-in to a fast ending with a fundraising banquet and academic panel. The options are infinite!

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Race Against HungerHold a "Race Against Hunger" event at your school! This exciting national event is perfect for middle school students and offers an exciting intro to the complexity and reality of global hunger. Get your students or peers excited about international issues of relief and development and how they can help support Action Against Hunger’s solutions to global hunger!

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Heart of the Congo Film ScreeningA story of courage, hope, perseverance, and how humanitarian aid can save lives and make a lasting difference. Heart of the Congo, a documentary by Tom Weidlinger, chronicles how a handful of Action Against Hunger aid workers try to help Congolese refugees who have lost everything at the end of a war. Amid violence from roving militia, systemic corruption and a legacy of colonial dependence, international and Congolese aid workers struggle to help villagers build a self-sufficient future. Heart of the Congo is a story of courage, hope, perseverance, and how humanitarian aid can save lives and make a lasting difference.

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