Good Garden Food Drive Launches With Schools Across North America

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(Free-Press-Release.com) September 1, 2010 -- Who: Schools, classrooms, clubs, afterschool programs and youth groups everywhere

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Good Garden Food Drive Launches With Schools Across North America

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http://www.thegoodgarden.org

What: The North American Good Garden Food Drive is a service program launched by One Hen, Inc., to get children to understand the issues of food security in their community and around the world and help to make a difference. Children will learn about food security through best-selling author Katie Smith Milway’s new book The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough, and resources on www.thegoodgarden.org and collect and donate food to a local food bank. Results will be collected at www.thegoodgarden.org during the drive to show the combined impact of children across North America.
Preview The Good Garden at http://www.thegoodgarden.org/BookTrailer.php

Why: Food security is one of the big issues of our time. Over 49.1 million people in the US are living in food insecure households and 16.7 million of them are children. In Canada, nearly 956,000 Canadian households experience food insecurity. Only half the people in the world always have enough food. The rest are not food secure: they cannot be sure of having enough food to meet their needs. And of that half, some 17 percent face real food shortages that may result in malnutrition and even starvation. Yet there is enough food on earth to feed all its inhabitants.

How: Form a team in your school, class or organization to collect and donate food to a food bank in your community. Register and report how much you have donated at www.thegoodgarden.org and see how the combined force of children across North America is making a difference.

When: Fall Food Drive: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 to Wednesday, December 15, 2010.
Registration and information at www.thegoodgarden.org
This is the first of four quarterly drives being sponsored throughout the year.
Remaining food drives are scheduled as follows:

Winter Drive: Jan – March 2011
Spring Drive: April – June 2011
Summer Drive: July – August 2011

Contact: For more information contact Karen Schultz, One Hen, Inc. at karen@onehen.org

About One Hen, Inc. www.onehen.org

One Hen creates educational programs that teach elementary and middle school students about world issues and how they can make a difference. Our mission is to help students become global citizens who succeed in school and beyond and to marry that success to helping others, by instilling in them the values of financial responsibility, personal initiative, global awareness and giving back. One Hen equips educators with interactive resources that bring global issues into the classroom and allow children to learn, play and make a difference for others and themselves. The Good Garden is the second enrichment program built around a book from the Kid Can Press CitizenKid collection.

About Kids Can Press www.kidscanpress.com/citizenkid

Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children’s publisher, with an award-winning list of over 500 picture books, non-fiction and fiction titles for toddlers to young adults, including Franklin the Turtle, the most successful publishing franchise in the history of Canadian publishing, which has sold over 60 million books in over 30 languages around the world, and CitizenKid™, a collection of books that inform children about the world and inspire them to be better global citizens. Kids Can Press is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc., a Canadian-based media and entertainment company.

More information can be found online at http://www.thegoodgarden.org

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