World Neighbors offers many opportunities for groups that are looking for a great way to give back and learn about the world around them. If your group is looking for a way to get involved, contact April.
Below are a few examples of the programs we have available:
Service-Learning:
- Hunger Banquets: Chance Plays a Role
- The Art of Trash: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink!
- What are You Eating? Growing Locally Acting Globally
- Fair Trade: Where Does Chocolate Come From?
Hunger Banquets - An Interactive Experience of the Inequities of the World’s Food Supply
A World Neighbors Hunger Banquet is a powerful experience in which guests will be filled with a greater understanding of global hunger. The purpose of a Hunger Banquet is to raise awareness of world hunger through activities, stories and a unique dining experience. Each participant has the opportunity to experience life through the eyes of marginalized people in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Though few guests will leave with full stomachs, all will leave with a greater sense of the inequality of food distribution around the world. Hunger banquets are used by many organizations as a teaching tool to raise awareness of issues of hunger, poverty, justice and development needs.
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Headquarters Village Tours - An Interactive Experience of the World Neighbors program approach and thematic work
Visit World Neighbors international headquarters in Oklahoma City and participate in experiential learning activities that teach you about our program approach and thematic work in Asia, Africa and Latin America! Our headquarters village tour features learning displays about agriculture, safe water, nutrition, community and reproductive health, capacity building, gender and the environment. Other aspects of our headquarters village tour experience include, but are not limited to: watching our promotional DVD, watching our SNAPSHOTS DVD (featuring the lives of three 13-year olds living in a World Neighbors village), completion of a service-learning project and/or participation in experiential learning activities about food distribution, poverty, the environment, literacy, gender, etc. Headquarters village tours are offered to both small and large groups. The minimum group tour size is 5 and maximum group tour size is 40. Tours last between 1-2 hours and are scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 11 am – 6 pm by appointment only. You will need to schedule your group tour at least two-three weeks prior to your visit.
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Additional Outreach/Fundraising Opportunities for Youth:
- Heroes Against Hunger (a guitar hero tournament)
- Hoops For Hunger (a basketball tournament)
- Chords For Change: Speaking Out Against Hunger, Poverty and Disease (a rock concert with prizes for best song -lyrics about global issues- and best band)
- Poverty Slam: Poetry Competition
 World Neighbors is currently offering a special program for youth ministries of all faiths focusing on the effects of recent violence in Kenya. Join the World 2008: Focus on Kenya is a program designed to involve youth groups in the world around them. Email Patrick today for more information.
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