Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Hunger Site (et al)

Or something like that.

There's a website that I've probably told most of you about before, but hang on to your hats, because you're getting the same spiel again. The Hunger Site is a not-for-profit advertising-sponsored website. Tap the "click here to give" button once a day, and your click registers on the site's counter. The advertisers donate a certain amount per click - the case of The Hunger Site, 1.1 cup of food to a hungry person. It's easy. You can do it every day. If you're clever, you'll do it at work and then at home. You can also browse the site's tantalizing online store, which features a delightful array of apparel, jewelery, and furnishings. Most are fair-trade, and with every purchase, an additional donation is made.

But wait! There's more! The Breast Cancer Site, The Child Health Site, The Literacy Site, The Rainforest Site, and The Animal Rescue Site are all navigable from The Hunger Site and all work under the same principal. Adding them up: six clicks a day. Speed demons can do this in under a minute. You don't have to save the cheerleader to save the world. All you have to do is click.

AND AND AND!

If you don't know freerice.com, get thee to a new browser and go play for a few minutes. It's vocab games! Educational and fun (for wordies like me, anyway). Every correct answer donates ten grains of rice to the United Nation's World Food Program. Go. Play. Now.

2 comments:

Anne said...

thanks for the Heroes shout out! coming back soon!

Libby said...

OH MY GOSH. freerice has new games. like spanish vocab. I haven't been to freerice in months, I am so happy now (but dang you, I am supposed to be writing a paper....!)

also. I always click for the rainforest site every morning. but I didn't realize about all the other sites. so this is good :) now I will click for all!