Youth Resources
FASTForward

A 24-Hour Fast for World Hunger.  Everything you need to host your own Fast is available free of charge online.
Let's Talk About It

An interactive discussion guide that shares the gripping stories of real people facing the challenges of living in the developing world.  Click here to view materials or to order your free copies.
In Exile For Awhile

A refugee camp simulation designed to stimulate faith, thinking and action in youth. Contact CRWRC at 1-800-730-3490 for more information.
Micahmorphosis

A CRWRC-sponsored site for people interested in making a difference in the world. Visit today to participate in a discussion, post your artwork, read a blog, and find ideas for how you can work for change in your own neck of the woods. Visit today.

Additional Resources for Youth

  • A Chair for Everyone - an activity that uses chairs to demonstrate the unequal distirbution of resources in our world
  • Banana Splits - a 30-minute introduction to trade issues using bananas as an example of the way that world trade works to the disadvantage of poor farmers and their families.
  • Banana Splits template
  • Enough for Everyone - This activity builds on the Food Distribution Exercise. In this game, students play a variation of musical chairs where they are encouraged to work together to share increasingly limited resources.
  • Food Distribution Exercise - This activity and discussion guide provides a visual example of how the world’s food and wealth are distributed.
  • Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger (Secondary level) - a curriculum to teach about hunger and injustice.
  • God's Banquet - dramas and interpretive readings for youth about hunger
  • Health in the Village - a youth group activity that will illustrate the health issues that face many poor communities
  • Hunger No More - a uniquely cooperative effort of 23 churches and organizations, to get people talking about issues related to hunger, poverty, and powerlessness. Click here for online content. Don’t be afraid to check out the "children’s resources", some of them would be great for youth and adults too. You can also order paper copies by Contacting the CRC Office of Social Justice and Hunger Action.
  • Hungry Decisions  - an interactive, simulation exercise that will help you understand the realities of poverty. Church World Service has now made this resource available online.
  • Micah Challenge Toolkit for youth - a variety of resources to help you promote hunger awareness, justice, and the goals of the Micah Challenge
  • The World at the Table - host a dinner for your youth group or church that no one will forget, by serving people food portions that illustrate the injustice of food/wealth distribution in our world.
  • What is the tune we March to - a variant on "musical chairs" that helps to show the injustice of the distribution of wealth in our world
  • World Volleyball - an activity that uses volleyball to illustrate the hurdles that developing countries must overcome to "compete" in our world
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