About a year ago, Chuck Goodwin recommended The Hunger Site
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
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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.
-- Chuck Goodwin Applied Linguistics 3300 Rolfe Hall UCLA Los Angeles CA 90095-1531cgoodwin@humnet.ucla.edu (310) 440-0766 (310) 206-4118 fax
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