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Great Resources for Teaching about Food and Water
from the Summer 2008 YES! Education Connection Newsletter
Read the newsletter: Food Crisis? Teach Fair Trade
The food crisis is all over the news. But resignation won't get us anywhere. Inspire your students and bring solution-oriented curriculum material and direct action into your classroom. These two organizations are a good place to start.
:: Water Partners
:: National Farm to College Program
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Whose Water?: Check out the water issue of YES! Magazine |
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WaterPartners
SEE WEBSITE :: WaterPartners
WaterPartners International is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed exclusively to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. Since its inception in 1990, Water Partners has transformed thousands of lives with access to safe water and sanitation in eight countries—Bangladesh, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Guatemala, India, Kenya, and the Philippines. By forging partnerships with carefully-screened partner organizations and offering innovative financing methods through its WaterCredit Initiative, WaterPartners empowers local communities to develop and sustain solutions to their own water needs.
See global water supply lesson plans here.
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Montana Farms Go to School, YES! Magazine issue 37, Go Local. |
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Community Food Security Coalition: National Farm to College Program
SEE WEBSITE :: National Farm to College Program
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a collective of social and economic justice, environmental, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, community development, labor, anti-poverty, anti-hunger, and other groups. It is dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local, and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food to all people at all times. In addition to the National Farm to College program, CFSC manages a National Farm to School Program in partnership with the Center for Food & Justice, at Occidental College.
See a guide to the Farm to College Program here.
