Workshops at Brown V. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas with the Boys & Girls Club during June 2012

Hosted by: Organizers at the Brown v. Board of Education National Park Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas

Guest Artist: Marla Jackson

Participants: Boys & Girls Club, the Dream Rocket Project, Brown v. Board of Education staff, and guest artist Marla Jackson. 

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Check out all of the amazing activities and educational opportunities at…. Brown v. Board of Education http://www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm

Superintendent - David Smith

Created by Daniel Baam from Topeka, Kansas

School: Topeka High School    
Teacher: Margaret Krogmann    
Title: “Help Needed”
Dream Theme: End Poverty
Materials and Techniques Used: Acrylic Paint and Painted Canvas Drop Cloth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by Andrew Myers from Tecumseh, KS
School: Shawnee Heights High School    
Teacher: Avery Ayers-Berry    
Title: “End Poverty”
Dream Theme: End Poverty
Materials and Techniques Used: Acrylic Paint and Painted Canvas Drop Cloth

Created at Washburn University’s High School Art Day 2011
Workshop: “Boost Your Inspiration: TAG IT Topeka”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walnut Springs Middle School in Westerville, Ohio

Artwork has been submitted by students in Mrs. Ryan's classes at Walnut Springs Middle School in Westerville, Ohio. This artwork is created by students from every walk of life. Our wonderful diversity can be seen through our art. At WSMS we take pride in our great students...who are great artists!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School: Walnut Springs Middle School in Westerville, Ohio “Help World Hunger”
Class/Grade:
Teacher: Mrs. Jancy McClellan      
Title of Artwork: “Help World Hunger” 
Dream Theme: Stop Poverty
Materials & Techniques Used: Acrylic paint and recycled billboard canvas
What is your group’s artwork about? n/a
Participants involved in creating this artwork: (Group 8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School: Walnut Springs Middle School in Westerville, Ohio
Class/Grade:
Teacher: Mrs. Jancy McClellan      
Title of Artwork:
Dream Theme: Stop World Hunger
Materials & Techniques Used: Acrylic paint and recycled billboard canvas
What is your group’s artwork about? n/a
Participants involved in creating this artwork: (Pd 8/9 Group 1)

★Created by Girl Scout Troop 3054 from New York, NY
With the Girl Scouts of Greater New York
Title: “Troop 3054 against Poverty”
Dream Theme: Poverty
Materials & Techniques Used: sewing, drawing, and painting
Participants: Samantha Bryant, Inez Wellington, Jenna Kerman, Arly Castellanos

By Becky Poisson from Westcliffe, CO
Name of Panel? "The Burden of Peace"
Dream Theme: Poverty
What could the IFC do next? "I don't know what you have done previously but maybe something redarding children, poverty, health, and education."
Materials and Techniques Used: Machine and hand applique and quilting. Thread stitching on dove. Computer image of earth printed on fabric. Recycled materials - meat tray, used dryer sheets, brown grocery bags, Document scroll has hand stamped words on dryer sheets gently tacked to scroll. Beading in sky.
What is the story behind your panel?
"Peace is not just the absence of war. The burden of peace is to provide basic human needs precluding the need to fight for these things. Cean water, adequate food, cultural and religeous tolerance, justice, education for all children, freedom, acceptance, dignity and humanity are among the foundation benches for peace. They are the Burden of Peace."

http://www.wateraid.org/

WaterAid and its partners use practical solutions to provide safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education to the world’s poorest people. We also seek to influence policy at national and international levels.

The Need

Water

Clean water is essential for life, but one in eight of the world's population does not have access to it. This, and lack of safe sanitation, result in over two million people dying from water-related diseases every year. The lack of clean water close to people's homes also affects people's time, livelihoods and quality of life.
 

Sanitation

Sanitation can be defined as access to safe, clean and effective human urine and faeces disposal facilities. Worldwide, 2.5 billion people live without this essential service and the resulting diarrhoeal diseases kill almost 5,000 children a day.

Hygiene education

To gain the full benefits of safe water and sanitation communities also need to know about the links between diseases and unsafe hygiene practices. Hygiene education focuses on issues such as personal hygiene - the simple act of washing hands with soap and water can reduce diarrhoeal diseases by a third.

Disease

Poor sanitation and bad hygiene can result in the contamination of water sources with millions of disease causing micro-organisms. These micro-organisms work in different ways to incapacitate infected individuals.

Poverty

The most obvious benefit of access to safe water and sanitation is a reduction in disease. But the economic position of poor families is often dramatically improved when they gain access to these basic services.

Problems for women

In developing countries poor water and sanitation affects the lives of women and children the most. It impacts on women's time, health, education and family relations.

Problems for children

Without safe water and sanitation, life for children in developing countries can be very hard. They are often at risk from disease and are unable to attend school.

Problems for the elderly

In many of the African countries where WaterAid works life expectancy is frighteningly low. Those who do live into old age face increasing problems as collecting heavy loads of water puts further strains on their health.

 

Problems for the disabled

The struggle to gain access to clean, safe water and basic sanitation facilities is even greater for those contending with physical disability. Collecting water is so much harder, and often impossible, for those in wheelchairs, the blind or simply frail and infirm as a result of illness or old age.

Read more at.... http://www.wateraid.org/uk/what_we_do/the_need/default.asp

Country information sheets

These are ideal teaching and research materials for both the classroom and the home. Download yours today to find out the facts about some of the poorest countries in the world. See Link...

http://www.wateraid.org/uk/learn_zone/other_resources/default.asp

Brought to by Water Aid

www.actionagainsthunger.org

Campaign to End Malnutrition

 

 

Global hunger—both chronic and acute malnutrition—now afflicts more than a billion people worldwide, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Acute malnutrition, however, is the more immediate killer: it threatens 19 million—mostly young children—with starvation. Every year as many as 5 million children die from hunger-related causes.

This loss of life is all the more tragic because acute malnutrition is preventable, predictable, and cost- effective to treat. We know how to save starving children if we can reach them, but only about 3% ever receive help because traditional therapeutic programs were impossible to scale up. Yet this is about to change:

We now have the tools to end acute malnutrition.

A range of micronutrient-dense Ready-To-Use-Foods (RUFs) have been developed that are ideal tools for treating and preventing acute malnutrition. These new RUFs require no preparation, no dilution (avoiding dirty water), no refrigeration, have a long shelf-life, can be stored anywhere, and can be massively scaled up.

These tools are real and they’ve been tested. We simply need public support and political commitment to make this happen on a large enough scale to save the millions of children who die each year. No child should die of hunger today. Join the Campaign and help end childhood deaths from malnutrition!  Read More...

On the Front Lines of Malnutrition

An interview with the man in charge of ACF's Stabilization Center in Karamoja, Uganda
July 24, 2009

http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/get-involved/stories/2009/staff-and-volunteers/the-front-lines-malnutrition

Brought to you by Action Against Hunger

www.centeronhunger.org/

"An outgrowth of the Harvard-based Physician Task Force on Hunger in America which made field visits across the nation and released studies on the extent and causes of hunger in the nation, leading to Congressional resolve to address the problem."

World Hunger Year (WHY) www.worldhungeryear.org

"Is convinced that solutions to hunger and poverty can be found at the grassroots level. WHY advances long-term solutions to hunger and poverty by supporting community-based organizations that empower individuals and build self-reliance...we envision a world without hunger and poverty."WHY is a leading advocate for innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty. WHY challenges society to confront these problems by advancing models that create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access to nutritious and affordable food.”

I would like to give credit to http://www.heartsandminds.org for providing such amazing information.

www.one.org

ONE is a global advocacy and campaigning organization backed by more than 2 million people from around the world dedicated to fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

ONE works closely with policy experts, African leaders, and anti-poverty activists to mobilize public opinion in support of proven methods for tackling poverty. ONE holds world leaders to account for the commitments they've made to fight extreme poverty, and campaigns for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. ONE also supports greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively. At ONE, we believe the fight against poverty is not about charity, but about justice and equality.

Quick Facts

• The Global Fund has approved $15 billion and helped save an estimated 2.5 million lives since 2002.
• The G8 has delivered 14.5% of its promises on development assistance to sub-Saharan Africa, halfway to the target date of 2010.
• 34 million African children went to school for the first time between 1999 and 2006, thanks in part to debt relief and assistance for education.

Brought to you by ONE, www.one.org

(www.kidscanmakeadifference.org)

KIDS is an innovative educational program for middle- and high-school students. It helps them understand the root causes of hunger and poverty and how they-as individuals-can take action. The KIDS program includes a teacher guide, newsletter, and website. The teacher guide, Finding Solutions to Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference, has provided thousands of classrooms, religious schools, after school programs and home schooling programs with tools to help young people understand the root causes of hunger and become informed and effective citizens with a healthy sense of their own capacity to change the world. Students learn about the pain of hunger; the importance of food; the inequality of its distribution; the links between poverty, hunger, joblessness; and homelessness; the role of the media; and are given the skills to take what they have learned into their communities.

 

 

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Check out Flicker to see all of the Poverty Dream Theme panels submitted.

The Dream Rocket team will be featuring non-profit organizations from around the world on the "Dream Theme" pages. Our hope is to help inspire participants everywhere to create panels with "Dream Themes" such as poverty, energy, space, health, peace, science/technology, conservation, and community. If your non-profit oganization falls within one of our "Dream Theme" categories listed and you would like to be represented on The Dream Rocket website,  please email

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