ActionAid schools | June 2012

1. Vasta, from Malawi, pouring drying rice from a basket. PHOTO: SVEN TORFINN/PANOS/ACTIONAID ActionAid schools | June 2012 ActionAid schools | June 2012

2. Why do we need food? Growth Keeps our bodies healthy Energy Children playing games, India PHOTO: TOM PIETRASIK/ACTIONAID Resistance to disease

3. Who should have access to food? • Access to food is a basic human right • The right to food enables people to live in: • dignity • free from hunger • food insecurity • malnutrition Schoolgirls eating lunch, India PHOTO: LIZ NEWBON/ACTIONAID

4. Think  Pair  Share If access to food is a basic human right, why do so many people globally go hungry?

5. How many people go hungry globally?

6. How has drought affected Ebrima’s family? Ebrima Mbye, from The Gambia, on his family’s farm PHOTO: ACTIONAID “We do not know how we will survive until the next harvest and we are very afraid that something bad will happen... That we will start to die.” Ebrima Mbye, The Gambia

7. Why can’t Anastasia grow enough food to live on? Anastasia, from The Democratic Republic of Congo, harvesting crops PHOTO: ACTIONAID

8. How has natural disaster affected the Vilme family? The Vilme family, from Haiti, sitting amongst the rubble of their home. PHOTO: MOISES SAMAN/PANOS/ACTIONAID A woman making her way through rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. PHOTO: MOISES SAMAN/PANOS/ACTIONAID

9. Why has Akeema’s family had to give up fishing? Hakeema Khatoon, Pakistan. Her husband used to catch fish as his living. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Fishermen, from Pakistan, going out to sea in a trawler with the hope of catching fish. PHOTO: WARRICK PAGE/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID

10. How is climate change affecting our food supply? A woman and child, from Kenya, collecting water from a dried watering hole. PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID Deforestation Livestock Kondha tribal people, from India, examining the effects of deforestation on their land. PHOTO: FIROZ AHMAD FIROZ/ACTIONAID A man walks past a dead cow, Kenya. Livestock can die due to dehydration during periods of drought. PHOTO: JEHAD NGA/CORBIS/ACTIONAID Herders, from Kenya, bring their cattle in search of pasture and water. PHOTO: SIEGFRIED MODOLA/SHOOT THE EARTH/ACTIONAID Serious soil erosion, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID A paddy field destroyed by flood waters, India. PHOTO: NILAYAN/ACTIONAID

11. What are some of the causes of hunger? Simon, Rose and their child, from Kenya, standing on their drought damaged farmland. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID Yama, from Senegal, is not allowed access to her land to grow food for her children. PHOTO: CANDACE FEIT/ACTIONAID

12. How can we create a world without hunger? Think of some big solutions!

13. How is ActionAid fighting hunger? Doreth, from Rwanda, feeding a cow at her daughter’s school. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Lacherie, 8, from Rwanda, drinking cow’s milk at school. PHOTO: SULAH NUWAMANYA/ACTIONAID Lila, from Haiti, shows an example of disaster risk reduction. Digging small canals and dirt walls provides channels for heavy rainfall. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Yerrampalli, from India, at a land rights march for local women. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Vicky, from Brazil, food rights campaigner. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Khudaija Pandrani, from Pakistan, is a farmer who has benefitted from access to a seed bank. PHOTO: ACTIONAID

14. Hands holding rice husks, the hard protective covering of rice grains. PHOTO: SVEN TORFINN/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID For further information visit www.actionaid.org.uk/schools ActionAid schools | June 2012