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THE HUNGER SITE
Click on "Donate Free food" button in the center of their small page. Servings of food will be donated for every click (limited to one per day per person). You pay nothing and hungry people get fed.
June 1999 - October 1999
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October 15, 1999 . 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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October 10, 1999 . Aftenposten (Norway) – “Et klikk for et liv . . . Redd et liv! Du trenger ikke åpne hverken husrom eller lommebok. Bare surf innom www.thehungersite.com. Hver dag dør 24 000 mennesker av sult. Det betyr ett menneske hvert 3,6 sekund. Og det er ikke stort vi kan gjøre med det. Sludder! Det er feil, og vi vet det. Men det er ikke stort vi gidder å gjøre med det. For passive medfølende kommer nå Internett til hjelp. Hvis du går til nettadressen www.thehungersite.com og klikker på en knapp der, har du reddet et liv i dag. I morgen kan du redde et nytt.”
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October 3, 1999 . Rivista Domenical, La Nación (Costa Rica) – “El sitio lleva como nombre The Hunger Site (El sitio de la hambruna) y abrió sus puertas virtuales en junio de este año. Lo único que usted necesita hacer es dedicar unos cuantos segundos de su día para ingresar a esta página. Luego, con solo presionar un botón, usted ya habrá realizado una "donación" gratuita de una porción de alimento.”
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October 1999 . Periódico El Humanista (Chile) – “Un 80% de los seres humanos viven por debajo del mínimo necesario y un 50% sufre por hambre. . . . Sin embargo, muchos de los intentos que se hacen hablan de una inquietud por el tema y ayudan a reflexionar sobre el mundo que queremos. En Internet circula esta dirección que cabe dentro de la categoría de Una Buena Intención Para Mitigar el Hambre: thehungersite.com. Al visitar esta página, se colabora con algunas tazas de alimento para quienes no pueden acceder ni a eso.”
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October 1999 . Universum Magazin (Austria) – “Selten war das WWW so sinnvoll wie unter www.thehungersite.com, wo man einen kleinen Beitrag im Kampf gegen den Hunger der Welt leisten kann. Ein Mausklick pro Tag rettet hier Leben: Sponsoren stellen Reis, Getreide oder Mais zur Verfügung, die UNO sorgt für die Verteilung.”
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September 27, 1999 . Le Parisien (France) – “Le site américain www.thehungersite.com, dont les internautes français s'échangent ces jours-ci l'adresse à grands coups de mails (courriers électroniques), convertit les clics de ses visiteurs en bols de riz, que les sponsors, dûment affichés à l'écran, se chargent de distribuer à leurs frais au programme alimentaire des Nations unies (PAM). Tout le monde semble ainsi s'y retrouver : le concepteur du site en attirant l'attention des internautes sur ce fléau, les marques-partenaires en étant vues des milliers de fois par jour (en équivalent publicité traditionnelle, ce serait ruineux), et les associations humanitaires toujours à la recherche de nouveaux relais.”
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September 27, 1999 . El Mundo (Spain) – “Hay algo que se arruga en el corazón cada vez que se visita Thehungersite.com (El sitio del hambre), un portal en Internet patrocinado por el Programa para la Alimentación de las Naciones Unidas. En la pantalla del ordenador aparece un mapa del mundo, una imagen que hace recordar aquellos años de infancia en los que se jugaba a identificar cada nación y cada capital. Y de repente, la India se oscurece, Mali, China, Mozambique, Camerún y, de nuevo, la India. Cada tres segundos aparece en el mapa un punto negro sobre un país y el visitante vuelve a desempolvar sus nociones de geografía e identifica a Nigeria, Sudán, Ghana, Kenia y Pakistán.”
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September 17, 1999 . Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) – “The Net has pushed back many boundaries, including that of human compassion. A web site that allows anyone to donate food to the starving without paying? It sounds too good to be true, but a new US venture, The Hunger Site, has achieved exactly that, channelling the cold, financial logic of online advertising to the warmer, social purposes of charity. . . . Hunger Site users are met by a map of the world. Every 3.6 seconds, a country somewhere flashes black, signifying a death due to hunger. India ... China ... Mozambique ... country after country dims in memoriam.”
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September 15, 1999 . Saldo (Switzerland) – “Hungerhilfe. Gutes tun online: Für jeden Klick auf die Site thehungersite.com stiften verschiedene Sponsoren eine Mahlzeit für Hungernde auf der ganzen Welt. Absolut empfehlenswert!”
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September 13, 1999 . Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) – “Välgörenheten har flyttat ut på Internet. Med ett klick med datormusen kan du nu lindra hungersnöden i världen. Utan att själv behöva betala en krona. Sedan juni i år finns en speciell ‘hunger-sajt' på nätet. Du går in på sajten, klickar på en knapp med namnet ‘Donate Free Food' och har då donerat pengar som motsvarar en och en halv kopp ris. . . . Intresset för att hjälpa sjunker oftast när media inte längre uppmärksammar ett svältande land. Därför är WFP väldigt glada över samarbetet med hungersajten. - Det är ett nyskapande sätt att få människor att skänka pengar, säger Francis Mwanza.”
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September 1999 . Family Circle Magazine (USA, 10/5/99 Issue) – “Have you ever wanted to help those less fortunate but not known where to start? Right now, all you need is a computer connected to the Internet to start helping to save lives. The Hunger Site was founded earlier this year by John Breen to aid in the fight to end hunger. The site generates donations to the United Nations World Food Program – the world's largest food aid organization, working in 80 countries. Here's how it works: Anyone can go to the site once a day and make a free donation . . .”
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September 8, 1999 . Agence France Presse – “Sur ce ‘site de la faim', les internautes du monde entier sont invités à faire un ‘don' de nourriture au PAM, organisme dépendant des Nations unies et basé à Rome, en cliquant sur une fenêtre intitulée ‘Donnez gratuitement de la nourriture' . . . ‘Thehungersite' ne se contente pas de lever des fonds mais a également des visées pédagogiques. ‘Quelqu'un meurt de faim toutes les 3,6 secondes et les trois quarts des victimes sont des enfants de moins de cinq ans', rappelle ainsi la page d'accueil du site.”
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September 7, 1999 . The Scotsman (Scotland) – “A website that is breaking all the rules . . . it's a rare banner ad that can overcome the surrounding noise to grab a potential customer's attention. One remarkable new initiative has managed to buck the trend, combining a highly creative charity campaign with an attractive sponsorship package for internet businesses. . . . As for the sponsors, many are finding that their link with the Hunger Site makes sound commercial sense. . . . the Hunger Site breaks through one of the major obstacles to advertising on the net: getting the user to care enough about your ad to click on it.”
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August 30, 1999 . New Statesman (United Kingdom) – “. . . watch the hunger map, which shows a globe on which a country goes briefly dark every 3.6 seconds: it happens every time a person somewhere dies of malnutrition. It's like watching Death on his tireless rounds, from India to China, then Indonesia, before hurrying across to Africa and South America. . . . a company that advertises there [on the Hunger Site] is actually getting quite good value for its advertising budget by feeding the starving.”
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August 27, 1999 . Bisnes.fi (Finland) – “Maailmassa kuolee nälkään 24 000 ihmistä päivittäin. Nyt internettiä päivittäin käyttävillä on mahdollisuus ruokkia kerran päivässä yksi ruoan tarpeessa oleva. The Hunger Site – verkkopalvelussa ruokaa voi lahjoittaa hiirellä klikkaamalla – ilmaiseksi. Ruokalahjoituksen maksavat verkkopalvelun lahjoitussivulla mainostavat yritykset, jotka lahjoittavat jokaisesta klikkauksesta pienen rahasumman YK:n World Food Programin (WFP) ruokarahastoon.”
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August 27, 1999 . Kristeligt Dagblad (Denmark) – “Nye initiativer på nettet bringer erhvervsliv og græsrødder sammen om at samle penge ind. Gå på nettet og klik en gang med computermusen på en saerlig hjemmeside. Så har du doneret en portion ris til et sultende menneske i den tredje verden, uden at det har kostet dig en øre. Betalingen sørger en sponsor for.”
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August 23, 1999 . Miami Herald (USA) – “Fight hunger on the Internet. You can help those less fortunate than yourself without ever having to spend a penny to do it. The Hunger Site is doing it with donations paid for by corporate sponsors. . . . Donations generated by the Hunger Site are given to the World Food Program (WFP), a United Nations agency. The donations are used to buy and deliver food where it is most urgently needed. ‘The number of people who've visited the site proves that people do care about hunger and want to help us stop it,' said WFP spokesperson Francis Mwanza.”
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August 23, 1999 . Brandweek (USA) – “If marketers are willing to pay for eyeballs on a website – almost any website – why not use advertiser fees to support charities instead of wildly inflated internet stock prices? . . . ‘It's great. We're absolutely happy,' says United Nations World Food Program spokeswoman Abby Spring. And in addition to the new donations, there's the education factor – our education. ‘After all,' Spring said, ‘the more people understand what's happening, the more they take responsibility, the better we all are to being closer to solving the problem of world hunger.' . . . And if we all visit once a day, every day, smart advertisers are sure to follow.”
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August 15, 1999 . About.com – “Donating to the hungry has never been easier . . . The concept is, so far, very successful. In fact, in the past two and a half months (since the site launched) this year, over 2 million donations have been made at no cost to the internet button-clickers. . . . What are you waiting for?”
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August 13, 1999 . Detroit News/Gannett News Service (USA) – “‘It's the people who visit the Web site,' says [John] Breen, who created the site 11 weeks ago . . . ‘They are the ones who make a difference.' . . . The Web site stemmed from Breen's desire to help educate needy children. ‘Education will get you out of poverty,' says Breen . . . He initially planned to create a Web site that acted like a global bulletin board. When teachers in, say, North Africa, would need pencils and paper, someone could post a request. ‘But my brother pointed out all the hunger that exists in the world and hunger really precedes education,' Breen says. ‘I remember reading that a big problem with educating some children is that they are so malnourished they can't concentrate.'”
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August 9, 1999 . Il Mattino (Italy) – “Lotta alla fame. Nei paesi più poveri del mondo c'è un morto per fame ogni 3,6 secondi. In “The Hungersite” si vede un planisfero: quando un paese lampeggia qualcuno muore per denutrizione. I gestori di questo sito hanno stretto un accordo con alcune compagnie e fondazioni: ogni volta che un navigatore visita il sito e clicca su “Donate free food” (dona gratis del cibo) gli sponsor fanno una donazione. L'accordo (giustificato dalla pubblicità) è per mezzo centesimo di dollaro a visitatore (si può cliccare solo una volta al giorno, i fondi vengono versati al programma alimentare delle Nazioni Unite): sembra poco, ma equivale a un quarto di ciotola di riso, mais, farina o avena.”
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August 9, 1999 . The Press Association (United Kingdom and Ireland) – “The whole point of the site is collaboration, and worldwide co-operation. . . . over time, with many people making a single donation each day, the organisers can gain enough income to make a sizable contribution to the distribution of food in the Third World. . . . It would seem that if only one site was worthy of being bookmarked this summer, the Hunger Site would be it.”
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August 7, 1999 . The Straits Times (Singapore) – “Go on-line and help feed the world's poor – without spending a single cent. . . . And the net surfer? He gets to do a good deed by just clicking a mouse button each day, with no donations from himself at all. The idea, simple as it is, has worked.”
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July 30, 1999 . Computable (Netherlands) – “Klikken moet! Elke 3,6 seconden sterft er iemand van de honger. Driekwart van de doden zijn kinderen onder de vijf jaar. Dit is te lezen op de site www.thehungersite.com. Een wereldkaart op de homepage laat – middels landen die opflikkeren – zien waar deze ellende plaatsvindt. Met een simpele muisklik kan de bezoeker echter kostenloos een hongerende ergens in de wereld aan een maaltijd helpen. De maaltijd wordt betaald door een sponsor wiens naam in beeld verschijnt. Begin de dag daarom met een klik.”
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July 28, 1999 . Veja (Brazil) – “A cada dia, 24.000 pessoas morrem de fome em todo o mundo. Baseado nesta alarmante estatistica das Nacoes Unidas, o site www.thehungersite.com lancou uma iniciativa humanitaria original. Quando uma pessoa visita a pagina e clica em um botao, uma grande empresa doa um punhado de cereais ao Programa de Alimentacao Mundial da NU, que atende mais de oitenta paises atingidos pela fome.”
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July 26, 1999 . Publico (Portugal) – “Um ‘click' contra a fome. Ha sempre alguem que morre de fome em cada 3,6 segundos. . . . The Hunger Site . . . e uma organizacao destinada a recolher donativos para os 32 paises onde se morre de fome. Depois de aceder a sua pagina, basta ‘clicar' no botao ‘donate free food'. A operacao nao tem quaisquer custos para o cibernauta consciencioso e nem sequer exige que este se identifique ou que deixe endereco electronico.”
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July 21, 1999 . Newsweek.com – “Click for hunger. . . . a simple and economical way to make a difference. . . . ‘It's amazing,' says [a] spokesperson for the Friends of the WFP, the U.S.-based non-profit that supports the U.N. and other hunger relief organizations. ‘The Internet has changed everything and I am anxious to see how this will affect the aid programs.'”
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July 19, 1999 . O Estado de Sao Paulo (Brazil) – “Site de caridade conquista Internautas . . . A fome mata mais de 24 mil pessoas por dia, sendo que 3/4 dessas pessoas sao criancas com menos de 5 anos. Preocupada com esses indices alarmantes, uma instituicao nao governamental norte-americana lancou na Internet o The Hunger Site, um sistema para a doacao gratuita de alimentos.”
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July 19, 1999 . BBC Radio 1 – “The website helping the world's hungry . . . Visitors to the Hunger Site can help starving people in the developing world, without it costing them a penny. When you log on to The Hunger Site's website, the first thing you see is a map of the world. Every few seconds, one of the countries lights up to show that someone there has died of hunger. Below the map is a button. Click on it and a donation is made to an aid agency, not by yourself, but by a corporate sponsor. . . . Alan Martin, who investigates charities for potential fraud, says that in this case, all the right safeguards are there.”
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July 5, 1999 . c't (Germany) – “Eine neuartige Verbindung aus Benefiz-Sponsoring und Online-Mechanismen stellt das Konzept von The Hunger Site dar. Unternehmen bezahlen im Rahmen eines besonderen Sponsorings Essensrationen für hungernde Menschen, indem sie den entsprechenden Betrag an eine der anerkannten Hilfsorganisationen überweisen, mit denen die Site-Betreiber zusammenarbeiten.”
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June 28, 1999 . The Los Angeles Times (USA) – “Someone dies of hunger somewhere in the world every 3.6 seconds. The Hunger Site makes it easy for you to help – simply click on the Donate Free Food button and a serving of rice, wheat, maize or another food staple will be donated on your behalf. The food is paid for by corporate sponsors, who get advertising on the site.”
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June 22, 1999 . Stern Online (Germany) – “Alle paar Sekunden stirbt ein Mensch an Unterernährung, meist sind die Opfer noch Kinder. Jeden berührt die Not in der Dritten Welt, doch wirklich helfen wollen nur die wenigsten. Die Hungersite macht es nun besonders einfach und auch billig, den Ärmsten auf dieser Welt eine tägliche Mahlzeit zu verschaffen.”
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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.”
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June 17, 1999 . Orlando Sentinel (USA) – “About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. . . . Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five. But there is a way to help: The Hunger Site. Click on a button to make a free food contribution to hungry people around the globe.”
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June 11, 1999 . InternetNews.com – “Here's a cool and we hope helpful concept. At no cost to themselves, visitors to the Hunger Site can donate a free serving of rice, wheat, maize or other staple food to the hungry. The site's corporate sponsors pay for the donation. Anyone on the Internet can make one free donation every day.”
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June 11, 1999 . USA Today Hot Site – “Helping to feed the world's poor was never so easy. Just click your mouse and sponsors of the Hunger Site donate a serving of food to a person in need.”
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June 10, 1999 . Computerworld Norway – “I tillegg har Sultsiden en del informasjon om sult i verden, blant annen en liste med webadresser til de fleste organisasjoner som jobber mot sultproblemer.”
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June 10, 1999 . Yahoo Daily Pick – “Do your part to end hunger. All it takes is one click.”
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