Help End World Hunger
More than one billion people - approximately 1/6 of the world's population are hungry. And every day nearly 16,000 children die from hunger and related causes. We have the resources to feed the world. We just need the will. Learn about global hunger and what you can do to help.
(Photo courtesy UN World Food Programme)
World Hunger Facts
- 1.02 billion people in the world are hungry.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - 1 billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day.
"World Development Indicators 2007." The World Bank. - 27 percent of children under 5 are moderately to severely underweight in the developing world.
"State of the World's Children 2007."UNICEF. - Nearly one in three people die prematurely or have disabilities due to poor nutrition and calorie deficiencies.
"Malnutrition." World Health Organization (WHO) - One in nearly seven people do not get enough food to be healthy, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide.
UN World Food Programme
The Cost to End World Hunger
It's less than 1%
Make Free Donations to End World Hunger
What if you could help end world hunger without spending any money or even leaving your house? Would you do it? If the answer if yes, then bookmark The Hunger Site.com and visit every day.With a single click of the mouse, you can provide food for hungry people in the U.S. and around the world.
It's a simple way to make a big difference. So far, visitors to the site have helped provide more than 300 million cups of food to people around the world - all at no cost to the web visitors who click every day. Donations are paid for by advertisers who purchase small banner ads on the site, and 100% of the advertising fees go to nonprofit organizations working to end hunger. Currently, The Hunger Site's charitable partners are Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest.
Funds are split between these organizations and go to the aid of hungry people in over 74 countries, including those in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America.
So make a difference in the life of a hungry child or adult. Visit TheHungerSite.com and make your free donation.
Improve Your Vocabulary and End Global Hunger - for Free!
Visit FreeRice.com to Make Free Donations
FreeRice.com is a wonderful new site that can help end global hunger. Launched in October 2007, FreeRice.com is reminiscent of TheHungerSite in its ease of use and wonderful ability to impact the world. Like The Hunger Site, it allows you to make free advertiser-supported donations to the World Food Programme. All you have to do is sharpen your vocabulary.The site asks users to play a multiple-choice word game to generate donations. For each word you get right, FreeRice.com will donate the equivalent of 10 grains of rice. The site shows you a word and then asks you to choose a synonym from a list of four others. The more you get right, the harder it gets.
In its first month, the site has already raised over 1 billion grains of rice for the UN World Food Programme. So surf on over to FreeRice.com, sharpen your vocabulary, and do a world of good for the hungry.
Help End World Hunger While You Shop, Search and Sing Along
Make free donations when you're online
NeoAid is a new philanthropic site that just launched in 2009. They're making it easy for people to donate money to good causes, including world hunger, simply by searching the web or performing other online tasks such as shopping or signing up for special offers.NeoAid's homepage looks much like any typical search site, with a big search box in the middle of the page, but the results you get here will do more than just point you to the information you're seeking. They'll also generate money for charities, including the UN World Food Programme. In addition to generating donatoins through searching, users can also click on the Shop, Offers, or Free Software links to donate even more money to charity.
There area couple things I really ike about this site:
- They donate 90% of their net revenue (gross income minus running expenses) to charity.
- They started with a small number of charities. Some other charity search sites allow users to select almost any nonprofit organization they wish to support, but this usually means that each charity may only get a few dollars or even a few cents, so the effectiveness of the effort is minimized.
- The seven charities they're supporting cover a wide wide of issues and are all well-known, trusted organizations:
Poverty: : United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Animal Welfare: International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
Children: : UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
Emergency Aid: : Direct Relief International
Environment: : WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature
Health: : City of Hope
Human Rights: : Amnesty International
The site has only launched recently, but if they become as successful as The Hunger Site or Free Rice, they could make a significant impact. Check out NeoAid.com.
Help End World Hunger for $1
One Million Dollar PayPal Challenge to Support World Food Programme
Fight Hunger One Million Dollar PayPal Challenge
This is Fight Hunger One Million Dollar PayPal Challenge! We want to end child hunger! Please send a dollar to feed hungry kids! And send this video to everybody you know! FightHunger.org is part of the United Nations World Food Programme.
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Hunger Education Links
Great sites to learn more and make a difference
- Food Force Game
A video game developed by the UN World Food Programme to teach kids about world hunger. A great teaching tool! - Second Harvest - Learn About Hunger
Learn about hunger in the United States. - Bread for the World - Hunger Facts
Get international poverty and hunger statistics. - Food First - 12 Myths About Hunger
See a list of hunger myths. - World Food Programme - What is Hunger?"
UN World Food Programme provides a glossary of hunger terms and definitions. - Women and Food Crisis - ActionAid USA
World Hunger Video
Organizations that Want to End World Hunger
Nonprofits dedicated to ending world hunger
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Hunger news from the WFP
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Giant Squid Awards Nominee!
This lens has been nominated as the Best Charity Lens in the 2008 Giant Squid Awards. Please visit the Giant Squid Awards page to vote for this lens! Reader Feedback
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Posted June 04, 2009
nonprofitrealityshowDetroit wrote...
Very nice lens here. I think people fail to realize that even a small contribution(a dollar) can make in someones life. We can all give something to help end suffering at home and abroad.
Posted June 03, 2009
story3girl wrote...
Great lens! We all have to remember to do our part when it coems to helping those less fortunate. Thanks for doing this!
Posted June 01, 2009
John wrote
This is a great blog.
But wait. Is monetary aid really helping countries in need? Or is it just continuing the cycle of poverty. Join the debate, should we continue to give aid those in need?
Posted May 29, 2009
lisadh wrote...
in reply to emokidd Yes, there are some organizations that waste large portions of their revenue on administrative or other non-essential expenses, but I believe most charities are good, and there are more generous people than greedy people in this world. This lens offers ways people can help end world hunger without spending a penny, but for those who want to do more, Charity Navigator can help you evaluate the effectiveness of thousands of nonprofit organizations. Throwing your hands up and giving up because there might be some "ripoffs" and "greedy" people in the world is a surefire recipe for failure. We don't need to fail.
Posted April 24, 2009
emokidd wrote
yeah but half the organizations that say they are helping are just ripoffs
that say they are going to give thier money to the poor but only give
small portions and keep the rest for themselves cause the world is greddy
Posted February 28, 2009
carlen wrote
I'm sooo glad I found this website! It's resourceful and important to know what's going on in Africa!
Posted February 04, 2009
KimGiancaterino wrote...
Congratulations on your Giant Squid Awards nomination. I hope you'll add this lens to the Help Africa group too.
Posted December 12, 2008
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Congrats on your 2008 Giant Squid nomination...woot! (http://www.squidoo.com/2008-giant-squid-awards) Thank you for putting this lens together, SWAH!
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Posted November 11, 2008
SaraMu wrote...
Oh, I'm so glad I found your lens. Hunger is such an important issue and I'm happy that I was able to help today.
Posted November 08, 2008
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