5 Ways to Help End Hunger for $1 or Less
67How to Help the Hungry
Every day, more than 850 million people around the world go hungry and nearly 16,000 children die from hunger and related causes. Here are five simple ways that you can make a difference and help the hungry.
1. Visit The Hunger Site
Cost: Free
Since 1999, The Hunger Site, the original click-to-donate site has donated nearly 62 million pounds of food for the hungry, thanks to its web visitors. Conations are paid for by advertisers, so all you have to do is visit every day and click.
2. Practice Your Vocabulary at FreeRice
Cost: Free
Started in October 2007, FreeRice.com is a word game that challenges you to pick one of four synonyms for words that get increasingly more difficult. For each word you get right, the site donates the equivalent of 10 grains of rice. Like The Hunger Site, FreeRice.com is able to make the donations due to advertising revenue, so the cost to you is completely free.
3. Make Free Click Donations at FightHunger.org
Cost: Free
FightHunger.org is a UN-sponsored site similar to The Hunger Site, as it allows you to make free click donations. But the layout of the site doesn't make it quite as obvious. When you get to the homepage, look in the upper right-hand corner and click the orange button that says "Click to Feed a Child." Your click will generate an advertiser-sponsored donation that will provide one meal for a needy child. As of November 2007, the site had generated enough clicks to provide meals for over 1.3 million children.4. Send a Letter to Congress
Cost: Free by email or 42 cents by mail
The United States has pledged to donate .7 percent of our annual income to help end world hunger, but unlike some of the 22 countries who have made this pledge, the US has yet to reach the goal or set a timeline for reaching it. You can help feed the hungry by sending a letter to your Congressional representative and asking him or her to honor our commitment. Learn more and find a sample letter at Poverty.com.
5. Donate $1 Online Through PayPal
Cost: $1 (or more, if you prefer)
The Fight Hunger One Million Dollar PayPal Challenge is an effort of the UN World Food Programme and PayPal. If one million people each donate just $1 through this online effort, the WFP's School Feeding Program will be able to feed 5 million hungry children.
More Ways to Help the Hungry
Another way to help the hungry is to use sites that donate a portion of their revenue to nonprofit efforts. These are a few:
Squidoo - This user-driven site allows people to create web pages about their favorite topics and donate some or all of their profits to charity. Start your own page here and you can generate money for your favorite cause.GoodSearch - Start your Internet searches here and you'll get the same results as you would get from Yahoo! But the site allows you to advertising revenue from your searches to any one of hundreds of good causes.Collectibles4WorldHunger - If you're looking for almost any type of collectible, eBay is the place to go. But if you want to do good at the same time, start at Collectibles4WorldHunger. You'll find the hottest collectibles from eBay, and each purchase will generate a donation to charity.More Hunger Links
- UN World Food Programme
News and updates on the UN's efforts to end world hunger, with statistics, publications and donations - Freedom from Hunger
Nonprofit organization that works to create sustainable solutions to world hunger - Squidoo.com - Help End World Hunger
Gives facts on world hunger and ways to make a difference
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Great HUB
regards Zsuzsy
Good information here, I have set up several squidoo pages to help others.
http://www.squidoo.com/KHAPARAPADA
GOOD INFO
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i just discovered the goodsearch toolbar and will definitely be using that. I searched it here on hubpages and found you - thanks for all the other great tips on ways to help!
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thecounterpunch says:
8 months ago
The greatest way of helping hunger is to broaden the consciousness of the complete hypocrisis of world organizations pretending to fight poverty:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Confessions_of_an_Economic
When it will be done, maybe we will be able to really help these countries which would sustain themselves without any help !