No Kid Hungry | End Child Hunger in America. Charity: water. Adult Literacy Programs | Literacy Partners Inc. Hungry for Solutions: Can the Youth Fix the Future? On a recent late summer morning in Portland, Oregon, I walked past the downtown farmers' market, where vendors were setting up their lush displays of fruits and vegetables. Food was on my mind, but for a different reason. I was on my way to a forum for young people about how they could help fight world hunger. The Mercy Corps, a global humanitarian organization headquartered in Oregon, hosted the Portland Youth Summit as part of its Global Citizens Corps. According to Erin Thomas, who served with the Peace Corps before working with Mercy Corps, the organization is increasingly looking to young people to help find solutions for global problems such as hunger.
"We need your ideas to solve these problems," she told the audience of teens and young adults. "You are inheriting these challenges. As the panel of experts explained to a full auditorium, hunger is a multifaceted problem with no easy fixes. Resources for tackling world hunger as a classroom topic are plentiful. Children’s Safe Drinking Water | CSDW.org. Pencils of Promise. Free Rice.