The Hunger Site has been around since 1999. During the time it has been running, I haven’t “clicked” nearly enough. Why? Because I often have forgotten about the site. Yesterday I signed up to their newsletter to remedy this problem. (If you want to sign up for this [and you should], go to the main site, and then on the left side, click “Remember to click.”)
The way the site works is pretty simple. You go here, then click the big yellow button that says “HELP FEED THE HUNGRY.” The next step is, there is no next step. Your click, through the sponsors on the site, just provided a little over a cup of food to someone who needs it. It’s not a hoax, either; it’s totally legit, and if you want, you can read up on it at Snopes.
I decided to post about this after I took a look at the results page, which shows how many clicks there have been on each day, how much food the clicks produced, etc. For April 16th and 17th, for example, there were around 133,000 clicks for each day. While that’s great and it produced a total of a little over 17 tons of food for the hungry, I think a lot more can be done. How many people in America alone are online every day? I’d wager it’s much higher than 130,000. Surely all of us who have time to check our email, to check the stocks, to read the news, to watch videos on YouTube… surely we have 30 seconds a day to go to the site and click a button. When you think about how important it really is in comparison to the rest of the stuff we do online, it should actually be the thing we do when we get online, if we do absolutely nothing else.
Lastly, I’m going to tag some people to pass this along. Who am I tagging? Everyone who has a blog. Seriously. If you have a blog, I’m asking you to blog about this, and in turn, tag everyone who reads your blog who also has a blog of their own. Sure, some people will have already known about the site, but I’m sure many of the people reached will be people who didn’t know about the site. If you feel that you don’t have time to write up a post about it, steal this post in its entirety. I won’t mind at all.
The more people who know, the more clicks there are, the more people who won’t die from starvation. Pass this along, please.
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