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The Washington Post (USA) – “Think of
all the time you spend clicking aimlessly or fruitlessly around the Web.
At the Hunger Site, one click actually accomplishes something: It sends a
serving of food to a starving person, at no cost to you. Corporate
sponsors provide the food in exchange for free advertisement and links.
Since its June 1 start-up, the site has sent enough money to the United
Nations’ World Food Program to purchase more than 4 million servings of
dietary staples; a WFP official calls it ‘an extraordinary testimony to
the power of the Internet.’ The privacy-protected site is run without
profit by John Breen, an Indiana software programmer who initially wanted
to support Third World education but decided hunger was the priority. As
his world map arrestingly illustrates, starvation kills 24,000 people
daily, most of them children.”
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