A wonderful way to encourage sustainable hunger relief is to partner with an organization that integrates community gardening with agricultural education. Through the use of gardens the cycle of hunger can be broken. People learning to grow and prepare their own food can help break the cycle of hunger. Talk to your school or community relief organization about working together to build a garden that can provide education as well as fresh produce to those that need it most. Check our Katie’s Krops to see what kids across the country are doing with their gardens to fight hunger and maybe get some funding as well. Check out these cool raised garden plans.

Schools everywhere are starting to integrate gardens into the school day. They are doing things Sprout Scouts, an after school club that teaches kids how to grow, and prepare fresh fruits and vegetables.

To learn about gardens the Food Drive Kids have built to help fight childhood hunger click here.

To learn about other things you can do to help fight childhood hunger click HERE.

If 1 in 6 kids in the US are hungry that there are kids in most schools that need help. In many cases the school may already have a program in place that helps these kids. If they do they very likely need help with donations, sorting, packing, and distributing the food to the kids that need it. If you want to get involved, just ask your school guidance counselor if there is something you can do. You may even want to do your own food drive to benefit your school’s hunger relief program. If there isn’t a program already in place conside working with your school to start a Backpack Buddies program that can serve kids that may not have much food when they go home on the weekends.

One of the best day of the year for a kid is their birthday, and one of the best feeling a kid can have is helping others. If you put those 2 things together you have the recipe for the best birthday yet! The first thing that the founder of The Food Drive Kids did to fight hunger was to ask for food donations instead of presents for his 7th birthday, and he collected over 250 pounds of food to help his school’s Backpack Buddies program. It is one of the easiest ways to help and only takes a few steps:

1. Talk to your parents to make sure they agree!
2. Find your local hunger relief organization using Feeding America’s Food Bank Finder.
3. Contact them to find out if there are certain items they need worse than others.
4. Tell your birthday guests that you want them to bring food instead of presents.
5. HAVE A PARTY!!
6. Deliver the food to the food bank!
7. Know that you made a difference for your birthday!

To learn about other ways YOU can fight childhood hunger click HERE.

In order to end childhood hunger it is going to take help from all of us. Believe it or not you can do your own food drive. You can do it at school, at work, in your neighborhood, or at a local store. With a little help from adults, kids can make an even bigger impact by doing it. The process of planning the drive and making it happen is a true learning experience for anyone that gets involved. There are just a few simple steps if you want to do your own food drive. You can also download our detailed food drive kit below if you want help to do it on a larger scale.

1. If you are a kid, make sure to get your parents’ help and permission.
2. Find your local hunger relief organization using Feeding America’s Food Bank Finder.
3. Contact them to find out if there are certain items they need worse than others.
4. Make a list of food you want donated.
5. Decide where to do your food drive. Is it door to door, at school, at a store, or someplace else.
6. Hand out your lists of needed food, and be sure to explain why it is needed.
7. Collect the food.
8. Deliver it to the Food Bank you chose.

Food Drive Tool Kit

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In addition to doing your own food drive there are other ways to help. Click here to find out. If more kids and their adults can get involved in the fight against childhood hunger we have a chance of ending it.