Thanks, Steve
>
> Dear Friends:
>
> Erin Starr passed on a referral to The Hunger Site, which I am passing on
> to you.
>
> We all know many good free informational sites are paid for by
> advertisers, also good media like the Haleakala Times or the Maui
> Bulletin, given away free because advertisers pay to have their names
> exposed to users of the info.
>
> Now some bright person has adapted that to have advertisers pay for
> donations to the UN world food program, in return for people clicking on a
> site and thereby being exposed to sponsors' advertising messages.
>
> June 19, 1999 CNN Radio - "This is how it works. You simply click
> on www.thehungersite.com once a day and click on the button ordering the
> donation of a free serving of rice, wheat, maize or other staple food to
> the hungry. The daily corporate sponsor agrees to pay for all the
> donations ordered. No money comes out of your pocket. . . . [The Hunger
> Site believes] that if just a tiny fraction of Internet users take a few
> seconds each day to make a free donation, they can feed hundreds of
> thousands of people. The site is pretty informative."
>
> Also this acknowledgement appears on the website belonging to the World
> Food Program (WFP) <http://www.wfp.org/info/Intro/donors/hunger.htm>:
>
> "29 July 1999 The United Nations World Food Programme is pleased to
> announce that The Hunger Site, an independent website created to alleviate
> hunger, has chosen to give the donations it generates via the internet to
> WFP. Cash donations equivalent to more than a million servings of food
> have been donated since the site opened in June 1999."
>
> I hope you'll explore the site. I found it very impressive, both concept
> and execution. if you're on the Internet, it only takes a few seconds to
> donate.
>
> Aloha, Sally
>
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> Sally Raisbeck, 427 Liholiho Street, Wailuku HI 906793 (808) 244-9604
> sally at maui.net
>