Youth Activity: Participants recognize a wide variety of philanthropic actions through fun and active participation. See the handout for supplemental faith-based discussion questions.

"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers." ~Whoopi Goldberg

Students will research a food program and write an essay.

Students explore how charity and philanthropy address hunger and poverty.

Students experience empathy for people who are homeless by listening to a song and completing the “I Am’ poem assignment.

Students experience working and unemployment through a very simplified role play.

Students will learn about federal social service programs over time and SNAP, the food assistance program.

Students will learn about the similarities and differences of the hunger situation in the two different classifications of countries: industrialized nations and developing nations.

Students will learn about overpopulation and its connection to hunger.

Students learn about food scarcity through a particular country's story.

Students learn how poverty and hunger are related.