Project: Eli Winkelman started baking (amazingly delicious) challah in college. The money she raised from sales went to help end hunger around the world. Four years later, Challah for Hunger is now a national program at ten universities across the country, with more springing up every semester. Fifty percent of proceeds from Scripps and UCLA's sales have been donated to Jewish World Watch. Read more »

Project: Every week, students from across UCLA gather on the 2nd floor of Hillel to make, braid and bake over 100 loaves of challah. They engage students and educate them on atrocities happening around the world, and they sell the bread on campus raising money for JWW's Solar Cooker Project. So far, they have raised over $25,000, and recently they were awarded the Elizabeth Stern Award from the URC at UCLA. Read more »

Project: As six of the students from I.L. Peretz Jewish School of Nassau were preparing for their cultural bnai mitzvah, they took it upon themselves to educate their shul about what is happening in Darfur. Eric Ravens, Ethan Barkin, Stephen Rossman, Jeremy Roller, Harrison Price, and Dylan Davis spoke with their community in East Meadow, NY, inspiring them to get involved in JWW's mission, and helping provide refugee families with solar cookers. Read more »

Project: First, he climbed a mountain to raise money for JWW's Solar Cooker Project when he was 14. As if that wasn't enough, for his 16th birthday party, he eschewed the typical gifts and instead had his friends and family make donations in his name, collecting an impressive sum. We all look forward to his upcoming events! Read more »

Project: About 40 teens collected pledges from family & friends in support of their participation in BBYO's Genocide Aware-a-thon, a 12-hour event for Jewish teens, aimed at raising awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. They made art, talked with a refugee, and raised $1200.00! Read more »

Project: Siblings Aaron and Jessica Isaacs, along with many friends, put on a full day of activities for students of all ages while they fasted for seven hours in honor of the seven years the genocide in Darfur has been going on. It was an incredible afternoon of singing, dancing, writing letters to politicians, cooking couscous in solar cookers, and education. Read more »

Project: 13-year-old Noah Sutton-Smolin's first name—like that of the biblical Ark-builder—means "comfort." That being the case, young Sutton-Smolin set his sights higher than his name. His bar mitzvah project was intended not to merely comfort the refugee women of Sudan, but in many cases, to prevent them from being afflicted in the first place by raising money for the Solar Cooker Project. Read more »

Project: Molly brought students together from all corners of Campbell Hall forming a club to discuss how they could combat the genocide in Darfur. They decided on having an art show at a local coffee shop/ gallery, selling original art while raising money. Read more »

Project: “Potholders for Peace” created by University Synagogue’s Director of Education, Norma Grinfeld, was an effort to bring “age appropriate” awareness about Darfur in the Religious School classroom. The key focus was to use the life preserving solar cookers as a way of teaching students about an important Jewish value, Tikkun Olam (healing the world) as well as describing conditions in the villages of Darfur. Students of all grade levels including senior congregants from our Tikkun Olam committee came together to decorate potholders that were sold before and after Religious School. All the proceeds will go towards the purchase of solar cookers for the villages of Darfur. Read more »

Project: Hayley is an all-out rock star. It seems that every time we turn around, she has raised another thousand dollars by one of her creative projects. Most recently, she co-hosted a Dance for Darfur at the Santa Monica Pier, pulling out all the stops to make it another noteworthy event. All the while, Hayley gets middle school students inspired to do their part, not least by starting the organization Teens 4 Tolerance with her friends! Read more »