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EndHunger@WIN
Arya Kaji is in Year 6, and is the Head of Innovation for Primary. Along with her mentor, Ms. Teresa, and her Innovation Coordinators, Sreeradha, Marcus, and Mohsin, she initiated a very fruitful campaign called #EndHunger@WIN . In this insightful article, Arya talks about her inspiration behind the campaign and how, through a very interesting range of activities, the Primary Innovation Team has brought together the entire school community towards a good cause.
Arya Kaji, Year 6, Head of Innovation
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How is world hunger still such a major problem? The main cause of hunger worldwide is poverty. Millions of people around the world are simply too poor to be able to buy food. They also lack the resources to grow their own food, such as arable land and the means to harvest, process, and store food. Today, nearly 2.5 billion people, almost one-third of the world's population, have some level of hunger, due to lacking the resources to purchase food, while 800,000 people go entire days without eating at least once.
When I got appointed as Head of Innovation for Primary, I knew that I wanted to bring a change to the society in some way, but didn’t have a clear idea what that would be. The thought of a food campaign came to my mind while watching a video of people struggling and dying out of hunger. I realized that hunger is one of the worst things anyone could go through. I remembered my mom making me understand the importance of food, giving me examples of the homeless and poor people who starve in under-developed countries. How lucky I was to get meals every day, and yet I used to crib if my mom cooked something I didn’t like! That video was extremely disheartening and was an eye-opener. As a result, the #EndHunger@WIN campaign was planned and initiated by me, my staff leader and my Innovation Team, with a hope to change our habits of wasting food, make us better people and also help the community, because everyone deserves the basic necessity that is food. I feel really lucky to have an amazing mentor, Ms. Teresa, who guided me and supported me, my backbone – my Innovation team Sreeradha, Marcus and Mohsin, who have always been enthusiastic, diligent and prompt in all their responsibilities throughout the working of this campaign.
MS. TERESA, STAFF LEADER
SREERADHA, THE END COORDINATOR, YEAR 6 HUNGER TEAM
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.” – Mother Teresa
MARCUS, COORDINATOR, YEAR 5
MOHSIN, COORDINATOR, YEAR 4
SENSATIONAL SUNDAYS • Weekend stories about Food wastage (at any restaurants, cafes you had visited). • Pictures and videos can be recorded if you and your family visited to restaurant and didn’t waste any food. • An act of kindness done on the weekend like cooking or donating food for the front liners (cleaners, workers, security guards, etc.)
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAYS • Students can make their own unique slogans and quotes on food wastage, donation and zero hunger and share them. • Renowned quotes on food wastage also can be shared to create awareness and motivate people to be a part of this global cause.
TASTY TUESDAYS • Students can prepare their own innovative recipe from the leftover food in the house and post their video. For e.g.: Leftover rice can be made into rice cakes. • Healthy and nutritious recipes can also be shared.
WASTE-NO-FOOD WEDNESDAYS • Students can take a picture of how they finished the whole meal served on their plate and didn't waste any food and proudly share their pic writing a line describing how they felt wasting no food. • Along with students, the entire family can share their video of how they as a family don’t waste any food and feel about it.
THOUGHTFUL THURSDAYS • Students can maintain a journal and write down how much money they saved throughout the week, by not buying the unrequired food items and only shopping necessary stuff. Students can also share their plans of how they wish to contribute using that saved money for the food campaign. • Students can share their videos on the idea about how they can prevent wastage of food and help the less privileged and make a difference. • Students can also post posters and photos on how food is wasted worldwide to create awareness.
