Chapter 14

World Food Program Map

www.wfp.org/country_brief/hunger_map/map/hungermap_popup/map_popup.html
See page 202 in The World Today.

This interactive map, from the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) website, shows you where in the world people are the most undernourished. You can also link from the map to other WFP pages about why so many people are hungry and what the WFP is trying to do about it.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank

www.foodgrainsbank.ca
See page 203 in The World Today.

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank is an organization of Canadian religious groups that want to “make hunger history.” By raising money and awareness, it gets food to wherever war, drought, or other disasters has created food shortages—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Not only that, it helps people in less-developed countries recover from disasters and produce more food on their own, through community agriculture projects.

RESPECT International

www.respectrefugees.org
See page 209 in The World Today.

RESPECT is an organization based in Winnipeg that wants to teach young people about refugees and get them involved in improving refugees’ lives. Read the e-zine or letters from child refugees. Participate in the on-line forum, or learn how you and your school can get involved. Refugee children around the world are looking for penpals. Find out how you can be one.

Cyberschoolbus –
The Millennium Development Goals

http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/mdgs/index.html
See page 209 in The World Today.

This is a United Nations’ (UN’s) web page for young people about the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. And what are they? The goals are simple: get rid of extreme poverty, make sure all children finish elementary school, give more rights to women, reduce child mortality and childbirth complications, reduce diseases like HIV/AIDS, make sure development is environmentally sustainable, and have rich countries help poor countries. But the goals are not easy to achieve. This site will help you understand how all these goals are connected and how education is so important to health and well-being.

International Labour Organization

www.ilo.org
See page 211 in The World Today.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) promotes the rights of workers everywhere, decent labour standards, the creation of good employment opportunities, and an end to child labour. This is its website, covering the ILO’s programs, labour statistics, worker-related news stories, and a great photo library of workers around the world.