A while back, I wrote briefly about the problem of world poverty, referencing Peter Singer’s excellent Solution to World Poverty, and your own solution to the world.
I rarely preach, but this is something I feel strongly about. We’re all in this together, and if we can help, we should. Sometimes, as cliche as it is, in the most important of ways, we’re either part of the solution or part of the problem.
An easy way you and I can both help is a site that’s been my home page for years; The Hunger Site. All you have to do is click on their button ad which their sponsors pay for, and the money pays for donations to worthwhile causes against hunger.
From their site:
About The Hunger Site
Your click on the “Give Free Food” button funds food for the hungry, paid for by site sponsors whose ads appear after you click and provided to people in need around the world through the efforts of Mercy Corps and America’s Second Harvest.Hunger: Do You Know The Facts?
It is estimated that one billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. That’s roughly 100 times as many as those who actually die from these causes each year.
About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five.
Famine and wars cause about 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be the ones you hear about most often. The majority of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition. Families facing extreme poverty are simply unable to get enough food to eat.
In 1999, a year marked by good economic news, 31 million Americans were food insecure, meaning they were either hungry or unsure of where their next meal would come from. Of these Americans, 12 million were children. The Hunger Site began on June 1, 1999.
Please remember to click every day to give help and hope to those with nowhere to turn. Every click counts in the life of a hungry person.
How You Can Make A Difference:
1) visit now for your first click,
2) bookmark the site as your homepage so you click and help someone everyday,
3) introduce the site to at least one other person.
Go to The Hunger Site now.
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:08 pm
I love this site. Good work…
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Very needed information found here, thank you for your work