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Christmas E-book Teaches Children about Cultures in 12 Countries

Christmas E-book Teaches Children about Cultures in 12 Countries

This holiday season, Food for the Hungry (FH) shares the Food for the Hungry 12 Days of Christmas e-book, an interactive countdown to December 25. Sharing Christmas traditions from 12 different countries, the e-book offers parents a tool to teach children about cultures around the world. The book also shows…
Santa to Switch from Cookies to Carrots

Santa to Switch from Cookies to Carrots

Each Christmas Eve, tradition holds that children leave out a plate of milk and cookies for Santa. During the night Santa Claus might visit in excess of 125 million homes. (Estimates vary.) Should he eat merely a single cookie in each visit, at an average of 100 calories per cookie,…
Book to Teach Children about Homelessness

Book to Teach Children about Homelessness

The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness has released Ears Up, Ears Down: A Dog's Journey Home, a picture book -- with a corresponding activity book -- about an adventurous dog named Ears Up, Ears Down, who becomes homeless after the junkyard where he lives is foreclosed upon. He spends…
Read Your Heart Out for Pizza Hut

Read Your Heart Out for Pizza Hut

BOOK IT!, a national reading incentive program created by Pizza Hut, is beginning its 28th year with enrollment in 680,000 classrooms across the country (U.S.). More than 14 million students in 38,000 schools are involved in the BOOK IT! reading program. In May, BOOK IT! announced it has joined with…
Malnutrition Crisis to Put Children at Risk

Malnutrition Crisis to Put Children at Risk

Despite global efforts to boost food security, chronic childhood malnutrition has been largely overlooked, putting 450 million children at risk of permanent damage in the next 15 years, Save the Children said in a report released Wednesday, Feb. 15. “Malnutrition is a largely hidden crisis, but it afflicts one in…
Bill Gates Praises India’s Fight against Polio

Bill Gates Praises India’s Fight against Polio

Health leaders around the world today will acknowledge an important achievement in the fight against polio as India marks one year since the last recorded case of wild poliovirus in the country. This success is stated to be the result of the Government of India's efforts and partnerships with Rotary…
Whole Foods Market with No Kid Hungry Campaign

Whole Foods Market with No Kid Hungry Campaign

This holiday season, Whole Foods Market along with its shoppers and supplier partners will help end child hunger by donating to Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign. "One in five children in America struggle with hunger, but Share Our Strength believes that childhood hunger is a solvable problem. Whole…