Author : Jon Mikkelsen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1434207900
After noticing that Greg seems to skip soccer practice at least once a week, Chase and Ian decide to figure out where Greg goes when he's not at practice. They follow him to a creepy old warehouse.
Author : Janet Poppendieck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780140245561
In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap charitable efforts replace consistent public policy, and poverty continues to grow.In Sweet Charity?, Poppendieck travels the country to work in soup kitchens and "gleaning" centers, reporting from the frontlines of America's hunger relief programs to assess the effectiveness of these homegrown efforts. We hear from the "clients" who receive meals too small to feed their families; from the enthusiastic volunteers; and from the directors, who wonder if their "successful" programs are in some way perpetuating the problem they are struggling to solve. Hailed as the most significant book on hunger to appear in decades, Sweet Charity? shows how the drive to end poverty has taken a wrong turn with thousands of well-meaning volunteers on board.
Author : Michelle Jurkovich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501751174
Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human security challenges in the world. In Feeding the Hungry, Michelle Jurkovich examines the social and normative environments in which international anti-hunger organizations are working and argues that despite international law ascribing responsibility to national governments to ensure the right to food of their citizens, there is no shared social consensus on who ought to do what to solve the hunger problem. Drawing on interviews with staff at top international anti-hunger organizations as well as archival research at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the UK National Archives, and the U.S. National Archives, Jurkovich provides a new analytic model of transnational advocacy. In investigating advocacy around a critical economic and social right—the right to food—Jurkovich challenges existing understandings of the relationships among human rights, norms, and laws. Most important, Feeding the Hungry provides an expanded conceptual tool kit with which we can examine and understand the social and moral forces at play in rights advocacy.
Author : Lois Brandt
Publisher : Flashlight Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1936261383
Winner of: 2014 Christopher Award, Books for Young People 2014 ILA Primary Fiction Award 2015 MLA Mitten Award Honor Human Rights in Children's Literature Honor With humor and warmth, this children's picture book raises awareness about poverty and hunger Best friends Sofia and Maddi live in the same neighborhood, go to the same school, and play in the same park, but while Sofia's fridge at home is full of nutritious food, the fridge at Maddi's house is empty. Sofia learns that Maddi's family doesn't have enough money to fill their fridge and promises Maddi she'll keep this discovery a secret. But because Sofia wants to help her friend, she's faced with a difficult decision: to keep her promise or tell her parents about Maddi's empty fridge. Filled with colorful artwork, this storybook addresses issues of poverty with honesty and sensitivity while instilling important lessons in friendship, empathy, trust, and helping others. A call to action section, with six effective ways for children to help fight hunger and information on antihunger groups, is also included.
Author : Bettina Elias Siegel
Publisher :
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0190862122
In Kid Food, nationally recognized food writer Bettina Elias Siegel (New York Times, The Lunch Tray) explores the cultural delusions and industry deceptions that have made it all but impossible to raise a healthy eater in America. Combining first-person reporting with the hard-won understanding of a food advocate and parent, it presents a startling portrayal of the current food landscape for children -- and the role of individual parents in navigating it.
Author : Debbie Stevens
Publisher : Ebooks2go Incorporated
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781545754733
My Family Cookbook: Mothers Against Hunger has yummy recipes that are mouthwatering and will make you beg for more. I am the single parent of five grown kids, grandmother of 15 grandkids, great grandmother of 14 grandkids. My cookbook is child-friendly. Any child eating my recipes will love them. I have made this cookbook with kids in mind. I came up with recipes that any child would eat. Most cookbooks have grownups in mind when they write them. My cookbook caters to both children and grownups. All of the recipes in the cookbook were judged by children and grownups. There's one proud little girl who helped choose the cover to My Family Cookbook: Mothers Against Hunger. Great job! Everyone loves it.
Author : Michael J. Rosen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1996
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780152010652
Numerous poets, including Lee Bennett Hopkins, Douglas Florian, and Jane Yolen, write poetry about their favorite foods to help fight against hunger.
Author : Jasmine Crowe
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category :
ISBN : 9780578946146
Children's book helping end the fight of hunger
Author : Heifer International
Publisher :
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780975599648
In Rwanda, still recovering from the deep wounds of war, a family is able to send their older children to school because of the gift of chickens that provide eggs--and income. Flora, the youngest child, must guard the chickens to protect the family's source of food and well-being. When the rowdy rooster Kubika escapes while Flora is playing, a wild chase sets off. Flora's friend Gideon, whose family is unable to send him to school, joins in. Along the way, Mother Yasenta helps the children in an unexpected way, prompting Flora to help Gideon to achieve his dream of going to school.Heifer International has helped millions of families achieve their dreams of education, income and enough to eat through the gifts of farm animals and training. For 70 years, Heifer International has worked in more than 125 countries, helping families move toward self-reliance. Recipients of Heifer gifts agree to "pass on the gift," as Mother Yasenta and Flora do, so that many others may benefit from a single gift.
Author : Devi Sridhar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191563900
We live in an increasingly prosperous world, yet the estimated number of undernourished people has risen, and will continue to rise with the doubling of food prices. A large majority of those affected are living in India. Why have strategies to combat hunger, especially in India, failed so badly? How did a nation that prides itself on booming economic growth come to have half of its preschool population undernourished? Using the case study of a World Bank nutrition project in India, this book takes on these questions and probes the issues surrounding development assistance, strategies to eliminate undernutrition, and how hunger should be fundamentally understood and addressed. Throughout the book, the underlying tension between choice and circumstance is explored. How much are individuals able to determine their life choices? How much should policy-makers take underlying social forces into account when designing policy? This book examines the possibilities, and obstacles, to eliminating child hunger. This book is not just about nutrition. It is an attempt to uncover the workings of power through a close look at the structures, discourses, and agencies through which nutrition policy operates. In this process, the source of nutrition policy in the World Bank is traced to those affected by the policies in India.
