The Hunger Site has been around for over ten years. With the click of a button visitors can contribute one cup of food per day to the United Nations World Food Programme.
When I found out about this site I was astonished. I was sixteen years old and couldn't comprehend how the click of my mouse could translate into food for hungry people overseas.
The site is sponsored by Mercy Corps, Feeding America (formerly Second Harvest), and Millennium Promise. All advertising revenue is donated to charities through the site owner the GreaterGood Network. Fairly-traded gifts are also sold through the site support the communities in which they are made.
Sister sites that run on the same click-to-give system support Breast Cancer Research, Child Health, Literacy, Rainforest Preservation, and Animal Rescue. They can be found on tabs at the top of the website.
Free Rice, an initiative of the UN World Food Programme, is another click-to-give style site. This one is a quiz game with different levels of difficulty as well as different categories that include geography, math, chemistry, and languages. I can (and do) play this for hours.
To provide a hot meal to someone in Haiti you can take the Haiti Hunger IQ quiz.
The ways to contribute to an increasingly global community are numerous and sometimes as easy as clicking a button. If you want to contribute daily, set your browser's homepage to one of these sites by (in Firefox) clicking Tools --> Options, then copy and past the URL (www.thehungersite.com) where is says Home Page.
Happy Clicking!
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