Facing History & Ourselves

What Can I Do? Hunger/Poverty

  • CARE Corps Teens. "CARE Corps Teens meets regularly throughout the school year for fun, interactive meetings, workshops and discussion groups. Together with your friends, you'll participate in fundraisers and other activities that help support CARE and spread the word about the work we're doing to fight global poverty. You'll also get some hands-on volunteer experience working on service projects in your community." (http://www.care.org/getinvolved/volunteer/teens/index.asp?)

  • Change.org: End Global Poverty and Change.org: End Global Hunger. "Change.org is a social network for social activism, incorporating nonprofits, politicians, and people across the globe. Change.org aims to transform social activism by serving as the central platform that connects likeminded people, whatever their interests, and enables them to exchange information, share ideas, and collectively act to address the issues they care about." (http://www.change.org/)

  • NetAid: World Hunger and NetAid: Global Poverty. "NetAid is a non-profit organization that educates, inspires and empowers young people to fight global poverty. Focusing our efforts on the U.S. and other wealthy countries, we're creating a movement of young people who are champions for the world's poor and engaged global citizens."(http://www.netaid.org/global_poverty/hunger)

  • ONE. “ONE is Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life – united as ONE – to help make poverty history. As ONE, we are asking our leaders to do more to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE believes that allocating more of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries.” (http://www.one.org/)