The purpose of our site is to educate students around the world about the huge problem of hunger. This is chronic, persistent hunger, which kills 24,000 people every day, or over 8 million each year. This is a problem that should be a concern of every single person living on our planet. Everyone can do something to make a difference. As teachers, you can utilize our site to begin the discussion in your classrooms as to how the problem of hunger can be solved in our lifetime.

We have collected some information, but this is just a starting point for your students. We hope that they will continue to search the Internet for more information as well as discuss this problem within your own communities. What are your schools and communities doing to help alleviate this terrible problem? Below are listed suggestions for ways to get your class started on the road to at least thinking about solutions to this problem or at least making an impact in their own community. Please let us know through our interactivity forum if you have implemented any of our ideas or let us know what your school is doing. You may motivate someone else to take a positive step in ending world hunger.

• Have your students read the articles about past famines. This can be used if doing a research paper about a particular country.

• Develop a list of natural disasters that have occurred around the world. How have these disasters affected the food supply of the country?

• Complete a class service-learning project. Collect food products to be distributed at a local food bank.

• Get pledges from people and conduct a swim a thon, bike a thon, walk a thon, etc. Donate the money to a hunger organization.

• Have people visit our site or the hunger site directly each time they sign onto the Internet. For each visit, food will be collected for hungry people.

• As a math project, try to figure out how much food is donated for your entire class.

• Visit the United States State Department site. Discuss how diplomacy plays a role in world hunger.

• Research war situations in the world and discuss the impact that war has on hunger.

• What role do women play in fighting the war against hunger? Visit the Hunger Project site for more information about this.

• Interview someone from a local food bank. Find out how prevalent hunger is in your own community.

• These are only a few ideas to get you started. We hope that you come up with many, many more and that you submit them to our site. Let's work together to try to solve this problem in our lifetime. No one should go hungry in this world!