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Blog About World Hunger
29/4/09 23:07BlogCatalogue has asked that bloggers unite today to talk about the hope that world hunger can be ended. 'Unite for Hunger and Hope' will be mentioned all around the internet today and hopefully this will generate some really worthwhile action towards decreasing the number of people who die of hunger each year.
BlogCatalogue has some shocking statistics posted on their website:
‘Right now, more than 500 million people are living in "absolute poverty" and more than 15 million children die of hunger every year.
World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the population is underfed and another third is starving.’
World hunger is an issue I find really hard to get my head around. I’m so used to being able to pick up food whenever I want it that it’s hard to comprehend not physically being able to get food. How does a community become so impoverished that its members can not afford the sustenance that keeps them alive? How does it become impossible to plant and grow your own food? These are just not issues most of us will ever have to deal with, whether you have to buy bargain brands or bulk bags of rice we all feel we will always be able to afford food and that the supply of food will never run out. Below I’ve highlighted a couple of especially bookish ways in which you can help someone else feel this way.
Heifer International , an organization which is heavily involved with ‘Unite for Hunger and Hope’, works with communities to provide long term solutions to hunger. They are solely concentrated on eradicating hunger and instigating community projects that help people to provide food and income to buy food, for themselves. During April they held ‘Pass the Gift’ month where they highlighted a way in which their work had helped people fighting hunger each day. Honey day will be of most interest to bookworms, as author Laurie R King is involved – buy anything from her Cafepress store or Amazon store during her 15 weeks of bees tour and the proceeds go to Heifer.
FreeRice is an online vocabulary game which donates ten grains of rice every time you correctly guess what a word means. The game starts at a low level but the difficulty increases as you get words right.
This last project isn’t related to books but it’s fricking fun.The Bread Art Project donates $1 to Feeding America for every piece of bread art submitted to their site. You get a virtual piece of toast to play with and can experiment with lots of graphical techniques that let you ‘burn’ an arty image into your toast. There’s a massive gallery to give you some ideas.
I’ve donated quite a bit to charity this month (and I actually have another donation to make for someone at work) so my financial contribution will be quite small but I’ll be dropping by Heifer to donate today. If you can afford to donate a little something to end world hunger please do. If you can’t afford to give cash this month please spend a couple of minutes at one of the sites I’ve talked about or make your own blog entry about BlogCatalogue’s efforts today.
BlogCatalogue has some shocking statistics posted on their website:
‘Right now, more than 500 million people are living in "absolute poverty" and more than 15 million children die of hunger every year.
World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the population is underfed and another third is starving.’
World hunger is an issue I find really hard to get my head around. I’m so used to being able to pick up food whenever I want it that it’s hard to comprehend not physically being able to get food. How does a community become so impoverished that its members can not afford the sustenance that keeps them alive? How does it become impossible to plant and grow your own food? These are just not issues most of us will ever have to deal with, whether you have to buy bargain brands or bulk bags of rice we all feel we will always be able to afford food and that the supply of food will never run out. Below I’ve highlighted a couple of especially bookish ways in which you can help someone else feel this way.
Heifer International , an organization which is heavily involved with ‘Unite for Hunger and Hope’, works with communities to provide long term solutions to hunger. They are solely concentrated on eradicating hunger and instigating community projects that help people to provide food and income to buy food, for themselves. During April they held ‘Pass the Gift’ month where they highlighted a way in which their work had helped people fighting hunger each day. Honey day will be of most interest to bookworms, as author Laurie R King is involved – buy anything from her Cafepress store or Amazon store during her 15 weeks of bees tour and the proceeds go to Heifer.
FreeRice is an online vocabulary game which donates ten grains of rice every time you correctly guess what a word means. The game starts at a low level but the difficulty increases as you get words right.
This last project isn’t related to books but it’s fricking fun.The Bread Art Project donates $1 to Feeding America for every piece of bread art submitted to their site. You get a virtual piece of toast to play with and can experiment with lots of graphical techniques that let you ‘burn’ an arty image into your toast. There’s a massive gallery to give you some ideas.
I’ve donated quite a bit to charity this month (and I actually have another donation to make for someone at work) so my financial contribution will be quite small but I’ll be dropping by Heifer to donate today. If you can afford to donate a little something to end world hunger please do. If you can’t afford to give cash this month please spend a couple of minutes at one of the sites I’ve talked about or make your own blog entry about BlogCatalogue’s efforts today.