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ActionAid schools | June 2012

ActionAid schools | June 2012. Vasta, from Malawi, pouring drying rice from a basket. PHOTO: SVEN TORFINN/PANOS/ACTIONAID. ActionAid schools | June 2012. Why do we need food?. Growth. Keeps our bodies healthy. Energy. Children playing games, India PHOTO: TOM PIETRASIK/ACTIONAID.

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ActionAid schools | June 2012

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  1. ActionAid schools | June 2012 Vasta, from Malawi, pouring drying rice from a basket. PHOTO: SVEN TORFINN/PANOS/ACTIONAID ActionAid schools | June 2012

  2. Why do we need food? Growth Keeps our bodies healthy Energy Children playing games, India PHOTO: TOM PIETRASIK/ACTIONAID Resistance to disease

  3. Who should have • access to food? • Access to food is a basic human right • The right to food enables people to live in: • dignity • free from hunger • food insecurity • malnutrition Schoolgirls eating lunch, India PHOTO: LIZ NEWBON/ACTIONAID

  4. Think  Pair  Share If access to food is a basic human right, why do so many people globally go hungry?

  5. How many people go hungry globally?

  6. Ebrima Mbye, from The Gambia, on his family’s farm PHOTO: ACTIONAID How has drought affected Ebrima’s family? “We do not know how we will survive until the next harvest and we are very afraid that something bad will happen... That we will start to die.” Ebrima Mbye, The Gambia

  7. Anastasia, from The Democratic Republic of Congo, harvesting crops PHOTO: ACTIONAID Why can’t Anastasia grow enough food to live on?

  8. The Vilme family, from Haiti, sitting amongst the rubble of their home. PHOTO: MOISES SAMAN/PANOS/ACTIONAID A woman making her way through rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. PHOTO: MOISES SAMAN/PANOS/ACTIONAID How has natural disaster affected the Vilme family?

  9. Hakeema Khatoon, Pakistan. Her husband used to catch fish as his living. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Fishermen, from Pakistan, going out to sea in a trawler with the hope of catching fish. PHOTO: WARRICK PAGE/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID Why has Akeema’s family had to give up fishing?

  10. Serious soil erosion, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID Kondha tribal people, from India, examining the effects of deforestation on their land. PHOTO: FIROZ AHMAD FIROZ/ACTIONAID A paddy field destroyed by flood waters, India. PHOTO: NILAYAN/ACTIONAID Herders, from Kenya, bring their cattle in search of pasture and water. PHOTO: SIEGFRIED MODOLA/SHOOT THE EARTH/ACTIONAID How is climate change affecting our food supply? Deforestation Livestock

  11. Simon, Rose and their child, from Kenya, standing on their drought damaged farmland. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID Yama, from Senegal, is not allowed access to her land to grow food for her children. PHOTO: CANDACE FEIT/ACTIONAID What are some of the causes of hunger?

  12. How can we create a world without hunger? Think of some big solutions!

  13. Doreth, from Rwanda, feeding a cow at her daughter’s school. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Lacherie, 8, from Rwanda, drinking cow’s milk at school. PHOTO: SULAH NUWAMANYA/ACTIONAID Lila, from Haiti, shows an example of disaster risk reduction. Digging small canals and dirt walls provides channels for heavy rainfall. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Yerrampalli, from India, at a land rights march for local women. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Vicky, from Brazil, food rights campaigner. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Khudaija Pandrani, from Pakistan, is a farmer who has benefitted from access to a seed bank. PHOTO: ACTIONAID How is ActionAid fighting hunger?

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