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Eradicate Hunger and Poverty....

A Saskatoon Area Challenge

 

Eradicate Hunger and Poverty

GGC 2010 National Service Project:

"Eradicate Hunger and Poverty"

We went WAAAY UP!

We challenged Unit Guiders to complete the service project with their units and help Saskatoon Area Guiding reach this goal together.

 Total as of December 31, 2010: 1616.5kgs!!!

 

A food bin will still be available at the Area Office and we encourage Units to keep up this awesome support of the Saskatoon Food Bank.

 

 

Eradicate Hunger & Poverty Challenge

General information about the challenge

Challenge Tool Kit

Guidelines for the challenge

The Right to Food comic book

 
 

 

 Some fun ideas for food collection:

·        have girls choose one of the eight item types on the most wanted list and have a food bank drive at a meeting, bringing only that item type. Hint: a unit might like to choose a “heavy” type of item... J

·        Put all item types in a hat and have girls draw what they would bring.

·        Have girls bring their donation hidden in a bag, have her give hints to the rest of the group so they can guess what she brought

·        Have a “potluck dinner” – each girl brings two of the same item from the list, such as beans. The group eats one can as part of “potluck dinner” and the other goes in the food bank bin.

 Saskatoon Food Bank Most Wanted Food Items

 

Quick facts about hunger and poverty in Canada

• About 4.6 million Canadians live in poverty

• More than 700,000 Canadians access food banks or emergency food programs each month

• Of those turning to food banks for assistance more than 1 in 3 are children; half of the families helped have one or more children.

 

 

Girls Worldwide Say, “Together we can end extreme poverty and hunger”