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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9543)	11/12/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Click & Save (a life)- Help the Orissa Cyclone victims causeanaffect.org FAQ 'What happens when I click on the "Save a Life!" button? Does the donation cost me anything? When you click on the "Save a Life!" button, this registers with our computer server. The computer adds your food donation to the day's totals and sends you the "Thank You For Your Donation" page. This page shows you the name of the sponsor or sponsors who pay for your donation. There is absolutely no charge to you for the donation; it is fully paid for by the sponsors and is completely free for you. ======================== Free donation to cyclone relief is just a click away Our Hyderabad Bureau 12 NOVEMBER THINK of all the time you spend clicking aimlesly around the Web. At www.causeanaffect.org , one click actually accomplishes somthing: 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," announced Iridium Interactive, the Internet and e-commerce division of Hyderabad-based Iridium Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd. "This is a first-of-its-kind website worldwide. It has already attracted more than a million hits," said Sriram Bharatam, co-founder, Iridium Interactive. "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," he added. When one logs on to the website, the first thing that appears is a map of India with Orissa blinking. The browser would see all the pictures and statistics about the affected people of Orissa. If the button below the map is clicked, a donation is made to the Orissa Chief Minister's Cyclone Relief Fund. The donation would be collected not from the browser but from a corporate sponsor, who pays one US cent (50 paise) per click. One person can make one donation per day. "The companies that advertise on the site actually get good value for their advertising budget by feeding the disaster affected people," say the promoters of the site. A click on 'Save a Life' button gets registered with the site's server and added to the day's total. The user will get a 'Thank You for Your Donation' message and information about the sponsor or sponsors who pay for the donation.