Enter the Think.Eat.Save Student Challenge – Fight against Food Waste Do you know how much food is wasted everyday in the schools/universities around the globe? Do you know how much food is wasted everyday in your school/university? One third of all the food produced worldwide is wasted. Food waste is a massive global problem that has negative humanitarian, environmental and financial implications and schools are a huge part of this story. In England, schools throw out some 123,000 tonnes of food a year, costing around £250 million a year. In America, 67 pounds of lunch is wasted every school year. On campuses in Los Angeles – unified, the second-largest school system in the US -, students throw out at least $100,000 worth of food a day. Do you know how many people die of hunger every year? The World Food Program (WFP) claims Hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria & tuberculosis combined. Let us share the Hunger Statistics of the World Food Program (WFP): 1. Some 805 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That’s about one in nine people on earth. 2. The vast majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is undernourished. 3. Asia is the continent with the most hungry people – two thirds of the total. The percentage in southern Asia has fallen in recent years but in western Asia it has increased slightly. 4. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest prevalence (percentage of population) of hunger. One person in four there is undernourished. 5. Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year. 6. One out of six children – roughly 100 million – in developing countries is underweight. 7. One in four of the world’s children are stunted. In developing countries the proportion can rise to one in three. 8. If women farmers had the same access to resources as men, the number of hungry in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million. 9. 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone. 10. WFP calculates that US$3.2 billion is needed per year to reach all 66 million hungry school-age children. The solution is in our hands. With a few simple changes to our habits, we can significantly shift this paradigm. The Think.Eat.Save campaign of the Save Food Initiative, is a partnership between UNEP (United Nations Environment Program), FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and Messe Düsseldorf, and in support of the UN Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge, which seeks to add its authority and voice to these efforts in order to galvanize widespread global, regional and national actions, catalyze more sectors of society to be aware and to act, including through exchange of inspiring ideas and projects between those players already involved and new ones that are likely to come on board. If you are a school/university student, take action by launching a team project that will prevent or reduce food waste; raise awareness among students and teachers to stop wasting food; spread the word to all your friends on your social media networks and bring about changes in at least your school or your country to help reduce malnutrition, help people around the globe fill their stomach. The winners will be announced on 15 December 2014. The UNEP will send the winners an email notification. Prizes: 1. US$5,000 – 1st Prize 2. US$3000 – 2nd Prize 3. US$2,000 – 3rd Prize Determining Factors: 1. Ideas & approach 2. Results accomplished 3. Level of interest and support generated Eligibility Criteria: -Entrants can be any students at the secondary and university levels from any school worldwide. -Proposed project should address one of the following: --Assess the level of food waste that is generated by the school and identify/understand the causes of this. --Generate an idea or ideas for eliminating or reducing food waste in their schools and undertaking a project to implement at least one of these. --Raise awareness in their schools or communities on the issue of food waste and why it should be reduced and eventually eliminated. -Entrants can be individuals or teams. -Participants should formulate and implement their activity from registration date till 16 November. The posting of entries should be made on 16 November 2014. -Entries can be submitted in one of the following languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. -Entrant under the age of 18 must get consent of their parent/guardian/school. -Submissions must have been taken with the permission of the subject(s) and/or venue/location and does not infringe on the copyright of any third party. -The entrant warrants that they own the copyright for the submissions and for the usage rights required by the challenge, and that their entry does not infringe on the privacy rights, copyright or any other rights of any person. How to Enter & Promote the Project? -Signup for the Challenge. -Create a project on how you can reduce (or check) the food waste in your school. Think about an innovative solution and implement the proposed solution to bring about the changes you think you can bring. -Come back to your account on the website to report your accomplishments once the project is completed. You will have to describe what the project was, its objectives and the results. -You should post the supporting photos on your own twitter, Facebook or Instagram accounts using the hashtag #ThinkEatSave. -Make your social media accounts public so that your work gets promoted. -You can post maximum 3 minutes videos on your Youtube Channel. (need not upload a professionally produced video) -Promote your projects as much as you can. -Share the links to facebook photo albums, instagram photoes and/or Youtube video in your report. Deadline: 16 November 2014 to submit the results of projects (project implementation 16 September – 16 November 2014) thinkeatsave.org/studentchallenge/
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