Just a quick update. If you make the hunger site your default opening
homepage when you open your browser it is the first thing you see
every day. You can just click once to donate food and then go to
whatever pages you want on the net. In Netscape there is a
preferences item to set your homepage.
Chuck
>About a year ago, Chuck Goodwin recommended The Hunger Site
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>day. Keeping his note in my inbox has enabled me to participate frequently.
>I'm resending his note so more people who want to can contribute the thirty
>seconds or so it takes to participate.
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>David Kirshner
>Louisiana State University
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>Chuck Goodwin <CGoodwin@HUMnet.UCLA.EDU> on 11/30/99 01:36:37 PM
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>There is a site on the Internet that enables you to donate several cups of
>food through the United Nations every day. I first heard about in a story
>on NPR on Sunday evening. The following description and address is from an
>email I received about it from a cousin. According to both NPR and the
>following description the site is not a scam and all of the food does get
>to the United Nations Food program.
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>John Breen, a software programmer from Indiana, has developed The Hunger
>Site (http://www.thehungersite.com). The site was created in response to a
>very un-Thanksgiving Day fact: about 24,000 people around the world die
>every day from hunger or hunger-related causes . At the site's homepage
>there is a map of the world that highlights individual countries where
>someone dies every 3.6 seconds!
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>Here's how you can help: when you click on the site's "Donate Free Food"
>button, a page pops up thanking you for "donating" a certain amount of
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>wheat, maize or other staple food to a hungry person somewhere in the
>world.
>Today, for example, each visit resulted in 2 1/2 cups of food. It costs
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>nothing -- donations are paid by individual corporate sponsors such as Blue
>Mountains Arts and InfoSpace. They, in turn, have the opportunity to
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>you to click-through advertisements (if you choose to view them).
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>The Hunger Site is not a scam. 100% of the food is donated to the United
>Nations World Food Program. There have been more than 11,000,000 donations
>so far, primarily from the US and Canada. That results in approximately
>6.3
>million cups of food. The amont of food donated depends on the number of
>corporate sponsors that choose to advertise on the site. Each sponsor pays
>for 1/4 cup of food per donation. Individuals can donate only once a day.
>Statistics and documentation are available at the website.
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>Chuck Goodwin
> Applied Linguistics
> 3300 Rolfe Hall
> UCLA
> Los Angeles CA 90095-1531
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> cgoodwin@humnet.ucla.edu
> (310) 440-0766
> (310) 206-4118 fax
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Chuck Goodwin
Applied Linguistics
3300 Rolfe Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles CA 90095-1531
cgoodwin@humnet.ucla.edu
(310) 440-0766
(310) 206-4118 fax
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