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Students Rebuild – an adventure in global learning for K-12 students that calls on their thinking, creativity, and compassion – part lesson in global citizenship, part art project, it’s a whole student approach to change the whole world. Each year Students Rebuild creates a challenge to bring students and teachers together for collective action. The 2020 Hunger Challenge is addressing the millions of malnourished people around the world. Partners in this challenge must design ‘recipes to end hunger’ through creative writing and art. We are taking this challenge to all students we work with in Milwaukee and beyond. Check out our progress on our team page!
Hunger has many faces.
Sometimes hunger is heartbreakingly obvious. Other times, it’s less visible, but no less destructive. With 821 million people or one in nine suffering from hunger globally (one in five in the United States), the faces of hunger are all around us. With the Hunger Challenge, we’re gathering around a global table to learn about hunger in all its guises—malnutrition, food insecurity, “food deserts,” and more—and to investigate how hunger interferes with education and development to prevent too many young people from living full, healthy lives. We’re also looking at what can be done to end hunger—from emergency relief in places dealing with conflict like Yemen, to longer-term solutions like training the next generation of urban farmers in the United States.
How the money will help.
The funding students generate by making art will support multiple organizations and programs, including UNICEF’s work to address chronic malnutrition in Yemen and Ethiopia; Mary’s Meals school-based nutrition programs in India and Malawi; and organizations addressing hunger and nutrition in communities around the U.S.
(Read more about our partner organizations on our website: studentsrebuild.org/partners.) Altogether, the Hunger Challenge will help make a difference for tens of thousands of children worldwide.
About Students Rebuild
Launched in 2010, Students Rebuild is a free ready-made adventure in global learning for students K-12 that calls on their thinking, creativity, and compassion. At the heart of the program are our annual Challenges—calls to artistic action that address a single, urgent issue, and that are flexibly designed so busy teachers can teach them however they choose.
Our Hunger Challenge Workshops
Through Quest Project, one of the founding offices of YIA, we have taken this challenge out in to the community in Milwaukee and Puerto Rico. We will be sharing more information on the visit to schools in Puerto Rico in a separate page very soon! With this challenge, we plan to take it with us for pop up workshops and host events. We will document the locations here and submit the recipes on our team page!
March 4th, 2020
Dana Kaleta, Director of Quest Project was invited to the Milwaukee Public Schools Dream Big Career Day. This event had representatives from local colleges and organizations for the 8th grade students to explore a wide range of future careers. While representing UW-Milwaukee’s PreCollege programs, Dana taught students about our mission to spread knowledge of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and through that, the 2020 Hunger Challenge. Students were inspired to create recipes for friendship, a positive mindset, and their future career.