Introducing: the Hunger Site

I've heard of this before, but being told that it's credible from my friend Meg, I decided to add a link. The Hunger Site is a website devoted to ending world hunger, and their advertizers give a few cents every time someone clicks a button on their site. Unlike the Major League All-Star Ballot, this is quick and only allows you to click once per day. So swing by when you visit InstantReplay; each click buys about 1.1 cups of staple food for hungry folk the world over. Also, you can link to breast cancer, rainforest, child health, and animal rescue websites with similar donation-by-clickage.

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.