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Youth Food Action Campaign
We aim to build a bridge between our world language students and the real world by encouraging learners to apply what they learn in class to support people facing hunger. We believe that food connects us to the world and to culture. Our goal is to inspire students in world language classrooms to learn from one another through hands-on, food-related cultural activities while making the curriculum more engaging. We are proud to introduce to you the Youth Food Action Campaign.
We aim to build a bridge between our world language students and the real world by encouraging learners to apply what they learn in class to support people facing hunger. We believe that food connects us to the world and to culture. Our goal is to inspire students in world language classrooms to learn from one another through hands-on, food-related cultural activities while making the curriculum more engaging.
We are proud to share that we have donated to local food banks, to those affected by the Turkey earthquake in 2023, the Hawaii fires in 2024, and the Tibet earthquake in 2025. Please join us in YFAC.
What is Youth Food Action Campaign?
Students make and submit world language-related food preparation tutorial videos. Those videos will be uploaded to the Why Learn Languages YouTube channel and we will make a donation to our partner food banks for every 50 views a video gets. Unique to our campaign, we will donate boxes of food favored by different cultures to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Every student who submits a video will receive a participation certificate. To promote authentic learning and provide students with amazing food experiences in the target culture, we will award the three language programs that contribute the most video submissions gift cards from our partner restaurants.
WLL student volunteers drop off donations at the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank's donation day!
How to Submit?
Create a video of you and/or your friends cooking or baking traditional foods. The video should be between 2 to 10 minutes long, and you must email it to president@whylearnlanguages.org.
Once submitted, our board and educators will review your video and reach out to you if it meets the criteria. If selected, your video will be uploaded to YouTube!
Jason receives a certificate of appreciation and a gift card for the very first Japanese food tutorial video. Great job!