The Travelling Teachers: Some songs to talk about world hunger and poverty

Saturday, 8 November 2014

Some songs to talk about world hunger and poverty

October was World Hunger Action Month!

http://www.stophungernow.org/articles/world-hunger-month-2011-10-04

May, 28 2015 will be World Hunger Day

http://youtu.be/IX8w__WR9Xc?list=PLHpm1ZOoHs84l9PKWWqix-kLyBCi6P12k

https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldHungerDay

http://www.thehungerproject.co.uk/getinvolved/worldhungerday/world-hunger-day-purpose/

http://www.thehungerproject.co.uk/song/

What causes hunger?

http://www.wfp.org/hunger/causes

http://eschooltoday.com/hunger-and-malnutrition/causes-of-hunger.html

https://www.freedomfromhunger.org/world-hunger-facts

What can we do to reduce world hunger?

http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Action-to-End-World-Hunger

http://borgenproject.org/10-ways-stop-world-hunger/

Many artists in the world composed songs about world hunger and poverty to help raise awareness about theese issues.

SOME CLASSICS

Band Aid was a charity supergroup featuring mainly American, British, and Irish musicians and recording artists. It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-poverty efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year.

http://www.inthe80s.com/xmaslst.shtml

Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas?

USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) was the name under which 44 predominantly U.S. artists, led byMichael Jackson and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985. The song was a U.S. and UK number one for the collective in April of that year. This super group was inspired by Bob Geldof's Band Aid.

http://www.usaforafrica.org/