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Activity StepsDiviDe the large group into small groups o fve or six. Assign each team a number

or name. Note these numbers or names on a sheet o newsprint and post it where all can see.

This will serve as your scorecard. Invite someone to serve as a timekeeper and give him or her the

stopwatch.

tell the teams they will be participating in a quiz show, answering a number o questions

you will pose. Explain that when you have asked each question, the frst team to make a buzzer

noise will have 30 seconds to respond with an answer. I their answer is wrong, the other teams

will have an opportunity to answer. Each correct answer is worth fve points. I the question

deaults to another team, the correct answer is worth three points. Should the question remain

unanswered, you will then need to provide the correct answer. Make sure everyone understands the

rules, and then proceed with the game using the ollowing questions (answers noted in brackets):

The world produces enough ood or everyone to have 2,500 calories a day. Thats 150 more

than the basic minimum. True or alse? [True, i distributed equally.]

Quiz Show

this activity reinorces an understanding o theissues surrounding hunger.

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a sheet o newsprint

a marker

a roll o masking tape

a stopwatch

pens or pencils, one or each participant

sheets o blank paperMaterials

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How many people in the world go hungry each day8 million, 80 million, more than 800

million? [854 million people in the world go hungry each day.]

In developing countries, how many children die every year rom preventable and treatablecauses6 million, 16 million, 25 million? [16 million. 60 percent o these deaths are rom

hunger and malnutrition.]

In the United States, how many children live in households where people have to skip meals

or eat less to make ends meet1 million, 5 million, more than 10 million? [11.7 million.

That means one in 10 households in the United States is living with hunger or is at risk o

hunger.]

Hunger is worse in rural areas among native people in Latin America than in the cities. True

or alse? [True]

The largest number o poor and hungry people is ound wherein Arica or in Asia? [Asiain terms o sheer numbers, but Arica has a higher proportion o hungry people among its

total population.]

In Tanzania, over a three-year period, a community-based nutrition program has cut severe

malnutrition in hal. True or alse? [True]

I everyone in the world lived as the richest 20 percent do, people would use 10 times as

much ossil uel and 200 times as many minerals. True or alse? [True]

Which developing country has increased its per capita ood consumption (in terms o calo-

ries per day) and has its wealth distributed relatively equally, but is criticized in the interna-

tional community or its lack o respect or human rights? [China]

A baby born in Shanghai, China now has a better chance o surviving its frst year than one

born in New York City. True or alse? [True, due to the eorts o China to improve the

health o its people.]

I armers around the world would add synthetic ertilizer to their land, they could produce

more ood. True or alse? [False. Studies show that heavier applications o synthetic ertilizer

have had little eect on increasing yields.]

List three main causes o hunger. [Possible answers include: lack o ood, wages, and shelter;

illness; no access to land or education; war; environmental degradation; weather conditions;

unequal trading; debt.]

How are environmental problems linked with poverty and hunger? [Very closely. For ex-

ample, deorestation can result in topsoil being blown away, which leads to desertifcation.

Another example is water pollution, which kills fsh and other marine lie.]

What is the dierence between amine and chronic hunger? [Famine is relatively sudden and

short-term, is oten precipitated by drought or war, causes severe hunger and high death

rates, receives high media attention, and oten receives a high level o international response.


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Chronic hunger is ongoing and long-term; it is sometimes called the invisible emergency

because millions more people die every year due to the eects o chronic hunger. But the

issue receives little media and international attention or developing solutions because the

causes are perceived as more complex.]

List fve actors that aect ood security. [Possible answers include: land and water, uel, wa-

ter and sanitation, transportation, jobs, amily and culture, research and development, exchange

rates, peaceul conditions, political structures and government policies, education, media.]

How is poverty linked to hunger? [Poverty is the main cause o hunger. Poverty means lack

o access to proper nutrition, clean water, sanitation, income, and health care. All these ac-

tors contribute to hunger.]

How does land use aect hunger in developing countries? [In many developing countries,

land is mostly owned by relatively ew wealthy and powerul people or by large oreign com-

panies. Land is used to produce crops like coee, bananas, and cotton or export, becausethese crops bring in high prices in international trade.]

aDD up the scores and announce a winning team. Then oer the ollowing key points:

Globally almost 826 million people go each day without the ood their bodies need or

healthy development. This chronic undernourishment eeds a never-ending cycle o disease,

stunted growth, delayed development, and poverty.

The eects o chronic or ongoing hunger are worlds apart rom this temporary hunger.

Chronic hunger has ar-reaching impacts on individuals and their amilies and, by extension,

on communities and whole societies.

Malnutrition is a leading cause o disease and premature death in the developing world.

Those most aected include etuses, children, and pregnant and nursing women. Their bod-

ies have the extra demands o growth and developmenttheir own, or in the case o moth-

ers and mothers-to-be, their childrens. Over the longer term, malnutrition eeds a vicious

cycle o hunger and poverty.

It is well established that poverty is a leading cause o hunger. But the reverse is equally true:

Hunger is part o a downward spiral within households that traps amilies in poverty or

generations.

Now, or the frst time in history, the world has what it takes to end hunger.

concluDe by noting that these acts and fgures oer just a glimpse into the issues that

people o the world ace in regard to poverty.

(The above activity is drawn rom Beat Poverty: Weve Got What It Takes!: An Educational Resource or

Young People in Grades 912. Copyright 2008 by World Vision Resources, Mail Stop 321, P.O. Box 9716,

Federal Way, WA 98063-9716 [email protected]. All rights reserved.)

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About World VisionWorlD vision is a Christian relie, development, and advocacy organization dedicated to helping

children and their amilies break ree rom poverty. Our work is motivated by our aith in Jesus Christ. We

see a world where each child experiences ullness o lie as described in John 10:10. And we know this can

be achieved only by addressing the problems o poverty and injustice in a holistic way. Thats how World

Vision is unique: We bring nearly sixty years o experience in three key areas needed to help children and

amilies thrive: emergency relie, long-term development, and advocacy. And we bring allo our skills across

many areas o expertise to each community we work in, enabling us to care or childrens physical, social,

emotional, and spiritual well-being.

WorlD vision resources educates Christians about global poverty, inspires them to social justice,

and equips them with innovative resources to make a dierence in the world. By developing biblically-based

materials or educators and ministry leaders on the causes and consequences o global poverty, World Vision

Resources supports the organizational mandate to move the church in the United States to more ully embraceits biblical responsibility to serve the poor.

For more inormation about

our resources, contact:

World Vision Resources

www.worldvision.org

[email protected]

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