Thanks for posting this to both David and Chuck. These reminders are so
helpful!
Jennifer
>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
>>
>>http://www.thehungersite.com
>>
>>as a way to donate several cups of food through the United Nations every
>>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.
>>
>>David Kirshner
>>Louisiana State University
>>dkirsh@lsu.edu
>>Chuck Goodwin <CGoodwin@HUMnet.UCLA.EDU> on 11/30/99 01:36:37 PM
>>
>>Please respond to xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>> Subject: Hunger Site
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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!
>>
>>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
>>rice,
>>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
>>you
>>nothing -- donations are paid by individual corporate sponsors such as Blue
>>Mountains Arts and InfoSpace. They, in turn, have the opportunity to
>>expose
>>you to click-through advertisements (if you choose to view them).
>>
>>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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Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Montana State University
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