Hungersite donations

30.1 million cups of food were donated in the first six months of 2009 by individuals clicking on that site every day.

I remember because I signed up on that site to be reminded. Every day I receive an email with a link, which causes me to click. It only takes seconds, and it actually helps.

Hungersite

The World Health Organization estimates that over two-thirds of the world's population is either under-fed or starving. It's a positively staggering statistic, but one that speaks to the importance of your daily visits to The Hunger Site. By simply clicking on the yellow button, you are helping feed people in need worldwide. In the first six month of 2009 alone, daily clicks have funded nearly 30.2 million cups of food. Every day you click at The Hunger Site helps put a small dent into that humbling statistic. Visit The Hunger Site as part of your daily dose of Web browsing and make that one click heard around the world.

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Play Every Day for Rice!!

As I worried about world hunger today in my post The No Food Diet, I have learned how the "FreeRice internet game emerges as a web phenomenon." This is sponsored by the World Food Programme. You can see a place to click on the game on my sidebar underneath my Profile, where you can see that 7,200 grains of rice equal a cup. When I play the game, each correctly chosen word earns 20 grains of rice. It is an addicting game, and I usually earn 1/3 cup of rice each time I play.

The article says:

Rome, 7 March 2008 - The award-winning Internet word game has revealed a surprising staying power as a web phenomenon and six months after its birth has now generated 21 billion grains of rice for the world's hungry.

"I never imagined that things would move this fast or that it would be such a success," said FreeRice creator John Breen, who says between 300,000 and 500,000 people are currently playing the game every day.

Read the rest of the article here.

And here is a video about the FreeRice Internet game:

The No Food Diet

I need to lose weight. I struggle to lose weight as I live in overabundant USA. There is always a food crisis in the world, which is getting worse as prices rapidly rise. Last week the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) called for urgent action to tackle the “silent tsunami” of rising food prices which threatens to push more than 100 million people worldwide into hunger. The UN article is here.

Also Quaker Dave posted about The New Economics of Hunger.