World Food Day
2012: KS2
ActionAid schools | September 2012
Pupils at Langobaya school, Kenya, collect
their school lunch as part of ActionAid’s school
feeding programme.
ActionAid
schools | September
PHOTO: SØREN
BJERREGAARD/ACTIONAID.
2012 | 1
Can you guess the name of this food?
Thikhala Chilembwe, 14 ,from Malawi.
PHOTO: CAMERON MCNEE/MISSIONMALAWI//ACTIONAID
Margret David harvests a healthy crop
from her garden in Malawi.
PHOTO: ACTIONAID
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Why has this maize crop dried up?
Can you think of three reasons?
The Yaa family's failed maize crop in
Langobaya, Kenya.
PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID
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Mariam Yaa, 10, collects water and tends the
Mariam Yaa, 10, at her homestead in
family’s goats in Langobaya, Kenya.
Kenya.
PHOTO: Langobaya,
DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID
PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID
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What type of food do
you think is in the
two bowls?
Karisa, Mariam and Karembo Yaa
at home in Langobaya, Kenya.
PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID
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Why do you think some people go hungry?
Mariam’s family
Mukta’s family
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Mukta and her friends in their home
village in Sunamganj district, Bangladesh.
TOM PIETRASIK/ACTIONAID
Mukta’s mother Shofikun in the community
paddy fields in Sunamganj district, Bangladesh.
PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID
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What farming jobs do you think Mukta is doing?
Mukta and her mother Shofikun.
PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID
Mukta in the family's vegetable
garden.
Mukta and
her mother Shofikun.
PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID
PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID
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Why do you think some people go hungry?
Mariam’s family
Mukta’s family
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Reuben Chidimba with a baby goat
at home in Rumphi district, Malawi.
Reuben plays with his village friends.
PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
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Describe what you see in this picture. Do you think it
would be easy or difficult to grow food in this area?
Typical landscape in Rumphi district, Malawi.
PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID0
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Thabu Chidimba, a smallholder farmer in the
fields she shares with other local women.
PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
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What links all these pictures together?
Lina Gondwe helping sprouting
maize plants to grow.
PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
Contrast between maize grown on compost-fed soil in
the background and maize grown without compost in
the foreground, Rumphi district, Malawi.
Compost heaps made by women
farmers in Rumphi district, Malawi.
PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
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Thabu and other women farmers on their irrigated
land in Rumphi district, Malawi.
PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
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Think about Mariam, Mukta and Reuben. What are
the similarities and difference between their lives
and the places where they live?
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