What One Can Do...
MDG Resources for Children
This page will always be a work in progress, and who's going to keep building it is YOU! As we collect children's resources for the MDGs, we'll keep putting them up here. As you use them and tweak or even completely overhaul them, send 'em back to us and we'll put the new versions up here. Find something out there that isn't here? Send it (or the link) to us and we'll get it up here! Create something cool for the MDGs with children yourself? Send it to us and we'll get it up here!
Want to be involved on a national level creating and gathering MDG resources for children and youth? Contact Tracey Herzer, EGR's children and youth coordinator.
Note: some of these resources are general poverty resources and not necessarily MDG-specific.
General Children's MDG resources
Experiencing the MDGs -- START HERE. This is WONDERFUL! An experiential MDG lesson plans originally used at the Kenyon Conference, sponsored by the dioceses of Ohio and Southern Ohio. Developed by Tracey Herzer, Susan McDonald, Helen Svoboda-Barber, Ginger Bitikofer, Mark Davis and Peg Sammons.
Christian Aid's "Learn Zone" -- resources for teachers, youth leaders and children
MDG Board Game -- Part of a brochure produced by the Mother's Union.
Children's MDG curricula
Church World Service's "Build a Better World" children's curriculum
Children's MDG activities
Hunger No More has a wealth of hunger-related educational activities for children and youth
Books, calendars, handouts you can download or order
Stand With Africa: God's Global Barnyard Children's Storybook --from the ELCA/Augsburg Fortress -- available at no charge. Companion bulletin inserts available free here in packs of 50.
40-Day Hunger Calendar and User's Guide -- from the ELCA/Augsburg Fortress -- available at no charge (postage included) in packets of 25)
Lutheran World Hunger Appeal Coin Bank -- from the ELCA/Augsburg Fortress -- available at no charge (postage included) in packets of 25)
MDG websites & Online MDG Games for children
Open a World of Possibilities -- Interactive world hunger website from the ELCA. More info on the ELCA world hunger children's resources home page.
Millennium Challenge Game -- from the Oprah Ambassador's site. A great online game that teaches children about the MDGs and other cultures.
