Ninja Mission
Learn about the American Red Cross! And think of ways to help them! Post you ideas or you acts of help for the American Red Cross!
Be sure to tag #kidscanhelptheamericanredcross #helpingninjas
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Helping Ninjas Love We Dine Together Organization
A beautiful example of what it means to be a Helping Ninja!
We are so inspired by this story and think everyone should know about this organization and these students are helping to make others feel included! Thank you for making a difference and starting We Dine Together!
Visit their website https://www.wedinetogether.org
Video is from CBS News
Read the full story here:
High schooler spreads the message that nobody should have to dine alone https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spreading-the-message-that-nobody-should-have-to-dine-alone/
To learn more about them on Face Book, go to https://www.facebook.com/wedinetogether/
Helping Ninja Spotlight: Tennessee Brownies Honorary Members
Helping Ninjas would like to welcome our very first Brownie Troop to become Helping Ninjas! We are honored to have you aboard and helping us with the mission to help others and our planet! As our first official Brownie Troop to join us, we are making your an honorary member! Welcome Brownie Troop 2298 of Spring Hill Tennessee!
New Helping Ninja Mission: Thank A Firefighter
Accept the Ninja Mission and thank a firefighter today!
#helpingninjas #thankafirefighter
Thank you Karoline from Spring Hill Tennessee!
Karoline gave us a great idea for a new Helping Ninja Mission! To take the time to thank a fire fighter! She is right! Fire fighters protect our communities everyday, they deserve to be thanked! You can do this by visiting a local station, or even making them thank you cards! The Helping Ninjas wants to help support Karoline’s wish and fire fighters across the globe! We are thankful for all fire fighters!
Thank you Karoline for being an inspiration and aHelping Ninja!
November 29, 2017
Hi! I am six years old and my Brownie Troop visited the Spring Hill Fire Station No.3 in Williamson County Tennessee. Our troop made chocolate brownies and took them to the fire fighters at the fire station and thanked them for their service! I think everyone should be a helping ninja and thank a fire fighter in some way.
Helping Ninja, 9 yrs old, Third Grade, Spring Hill, TN Brownie Troop 2298.
The new Helping Ninja Mission is posted here: Helping Ninja Mission List
Kids Compost: What is Composting?
https://helpingninjas.com/what-is-composting/
Helping Foster Care Children
Things of My Very Own Org. These Christmas tree tags list something more important than the year’s hottest toy.
Posted by Diply on Monday, November 27, 2017
Cafe Patachou Foundation Food Explorer’s Club
It’s Ok To Ask Questions: The Food Explorer’s Club by Robert Singer, Program Coordinator
An Article From The Cafe Patachou Foundation Website
I love to see the kids we serve make deep connections to the food they eat. Not only does it help them to create lifelong healthy habits, it encourages them to ask questions about the world around them. Last week, we served salads with crumbled falafel (ground chickpea patties) and locally sourced chicken during our after-school meals, and it had the students asking a lot of questions. One of our volunteers explained that falafel is Middle Eastern, and they discussed the various spices in the recipe. Then we chatted about the chicken, which was raised by a local farmer.
We strive to provide opportunities like these for kids to get curious and ask questions about where their food comes from and how it’s made.
That’s why we established our Food Explorers Club, a 10-week hands-on curriculum with a focus on experiential, interdisciplinary learning through growing, cooking, and trying new foods.
The Food Explorers curriculum is built on a series of standards we wrote with a team of trained educators. We teach students about nutrition, culinary skills and cooking, community, and the journey of food from farm to fork. These standards formed the basis of the Four Food Foundations:
Food is Fun
Food is from the Earth
Food is Fuel
Food is for Sharing
We recently applied two of these foundations, Food is Fun and Food is for Sharing while making guacamole as a group. We learned about the five different tastes (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami) as we sampled each raw ingredient including tomatoes, avocados, and red onion. We then combined them all to make guacamole from scratch: a fun and messy project! It was a reminder that food is fun, even when we’re cleaning avocado off our shirts.
We hope that by giving students the opportunity to experience food in a variety of ways, we can create a positive impact on their choices as they grow older.
Helping Ninja Mission: No Kid Hungry
No Kid Hungry
Accept the Helping Ninja Mission: Learn about and send us a written blog post or picture describing what you have learned. Post on social media or send to us, and we will post it! Send to [email protected]! Tell us about what you have learned from the No Kid Hungry Org Website! Go here to learn more www.nokidhungry.org
1 in 6 U.S. Kids Don’t Get the Food They Need
The following information came from the No Kid Hungry Organization Website:
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3 out of 4 teachers say their students regularly come to school hungry.
Childhood Food Insecurity
The facts and information came directly from No Kid Hungry Organization’s Website. To read more visit: www.nokidhungry.org
48.8 million Americans—including 13 million children— live in households that lack the means to get enough nutritious food on a regular basis. As a result, they struggle with hunger at some time during the year.
Childhood Food Insecurity.
What does this mean? Childhood food insecurity is the percentage of children under eighteen years old living in households that experience limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods at some point during the year.
Food-Insecure Families Food insecurity—the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food— exists in 17.2 million households in America, 3.9 million of them with children.
Rates of food insecurity are substantially higher than the national average among households with incomes near or below the federal poverty line, among households with children headed by single parents (35.1% of female-headed households with children are food-insecure) and among Black and Hispanic households.
Food insecurity is most common in large cities but still exists in rural areas, suburbs and other outlying areas around large cities
25 % of households with children living in large cities are food-insecure.
The typical (median) food-secure household spent 27 percent more for food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and composition.
59% of food-insecure households reported that in the previous month they had participated in one or more of the three largest federal food and nutrition assistance programs: SNAP (formerly food stamps), School Lunch and WIC.
Helping Ninja Mission
Accept the Ninja Mission: Learn about The Cafe Patachou Foundation
The Goal of the Patachou Foundation is to prepare and serve healthy meals to children impacted by homelessness and hunger and increase their awareness, connection and excitement about the whole food they are eating. Read more about the foundation here…http://thepatachoufoundation.org
