Action Against Hunger

When you were in Elementary school your teachers always taught you to share. We were taught "sharing is caring." As we get older why do we forget that? 

The Action Against Hunger program came up with an inspiring video called “The Sharing Experiment” to show how generous kids could be. This video is a reliable source because it comes from a the Action Against Hunger organization which is an “A”-rated by CharityWatch and rated a four-star charity by Charity Navigator.

The people conducting the experiment had many kids, coming in pairs, come to take a photo, at least that’s what the kids thought it was for. They gave each child a covered plate and told them that they were allowed to have a snack. Once they took off the cover, they saw that only one out of the two of them had a sandwich. Besides selfishly eating the whole sandwich by themselves, they would try to split it in half to give to the child sitting next to them. At the end, it tell us that there is more than enough food in the world to give to everyone, yet about “3.5 million children still die from hunger every year”.

I believe that the point of this video is to show that kids could be very generous and giving. If they see someone in need, they’ll help them out, so why can’t we, as adults, do the same? It really shocks me to learn that there are more than enough food to feed everyone, yet we still have millions starving to death. I want to see where all this food goes to and how it’s being wasted. I want to interview restaurant owners and make survey’s to hand out to students and cooking teachers at Hinsdale Central to see how much food they throw away on a daily basis.

I went to the Action Against Hunger website to find out about a few things about world hunger and how they are trying to help stop it.

Action Against Hunger provides food, water, sanitation, hygiene, and more to over 40 countries around the world. 5,000+ professionals work with ACF to save around 7 million people each year.

Discussion Question:

How many of you have thrown away good food without thinking twice about it?

How much food do we waste at Hinsdale Central?