UN Sustainable Development Goals Teacher Resources

Ana Dodson is an American who was adopted from Peru. As a teen, she started the nonprofit Peruvian Hearts, which helps orphans in Peru.

Chen Guangcheng, known as the "Barefoot Lawyer," is a blind civil rights activist in rural China, focusing on human rights, women's rights and the rights of the poor.

Bryan Stevenson has been recognized across the globe for the work that he has done to address poverty and racial inequality.

Dr. J. Larry Brown directs the national Center on Hunger and Poverty.

Farm2People is a nonprofit that works to deliver produce to food insecure areas of Los Angeles County in the wake of COVID-19.

Gerda and her husband established the Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation to combat hunger and intolerance.

Rowena Gerber and her students raise money to send Solar Ovens around the world.

Frances Moore Lappe is a passionate and pioneering thinker, world changer, and activist in many movements.

Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his success in increasing the world's food supply.

Sarah Ramirez works with local food banks, where food is distributed to impoverished people all across the community. Available in text with audio.

Robin Emmons is an organic farmer who has created a foundation to fight hunger. This story is available in text with audio.

Viola Vaughn founded an organization that supports girls working to achieve academic success in Africa. Available in text with audio.

Inspired by their teacher, Erin Gruwell, and the writings of Anne Frank, the students discover a new way to express themselves.

Malala Yousafzai speaks out for the rights of girls to have an education. Available in text with audio.

Armene Modi is a film director who has focused on adult women and literacy in Sone Sangvi. (Text with audio link story)

Film: An Indian girl gains a bicycle, and the will to achieve.

Shomy Hasan Chowdhury created the WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) organization, for which she received an Diana Award, to combat deadly diarrhea in underserved communities.

Slater Jewell-Kemker is an award-winning student reporter and filmmaker who works for a better environment and for peace. 

Plastic pollution is threatening the ocean's ecosystems, but we can work together to prevent further damage!

Nine-year-old Milo Cress is concerned about the millions of straws that pollute waterways, waste fossil-fuel resource and harm ocean creatures. He convinces restaurants to “go straw-free”. 

Claire Nouvian led a campaign against the destructive fishing practice of deep-sea bottom trawling. (running time 5:39 min)

Help Mary Save Coral works to repopulate the world's coral.

One woman's effort to save the world's underrated natural resource, coral. (running time 10:58 min)

Overfishing is a human-made threat to our world's oceans and requires immediate action. (Running time 4:11 minutes)

Caroline Cannon, an Inupiat indigenous leader, takes aim at offshore oil drilling that threatens her people and the biodiversity in the Arctic Sea.

A tribute to oceanographer Sylvia Earle from One World One Ocean (4:35 minutes)

Experience the Ocean through the mask of Dr. Sylvia Earle.        (7:17 minutes)

Sylvia Earle shows us the ocean's fate can be controlled, whether we make the decision to stop abusing its waters and let the ocean make a recovery.

Celebrate our world's shared oceans and our personal connection to the sea, as well as raise awareness about the crucial role the ocean plays in our lives and the important ways people can help protect it.

After decades of war and an oppressive Taliban regime, four Afghan photojournalists face the realities of building a free press in a country left to stand on its own -- reframing Afghanistan for the world and for themselves.

Defying death in South Sudan. Featuring Humanitarian Hero Award Winner Ken Payumo.

Nearly one half of Syria’s 23 million people have been displaced in its civil war and no group has been as severely affected as children. Children make up more than half of the three million refugees living in camps or makeshift housing and some news reports indicate that children are actually being specifically targeted in the violence.