Hi folks
This sounds rather twee but the UN has set a web site that allows you
to feed a "hungry person" just by clicking on a button. (i.e. it is
free, and only takes a couple of seconds to do!).
You can feed one person each day and every day if you wish. The service
is paid for by advertising revenue on the site.
Whatever the ethics are relating to commercial sponsorship of UN
international food relief programmes - and I don't think they are
particularly good (what next? McDonald's logos on the side of UNHCR
lorries, peace-keeping forces wearing Microsoft badges, or tanks
displaying Shell logos (no pun intended)) - I don't think this
should be used as an excuse for not supporting this scheme.
If it really does save lives then we should "click that button" as
often as we are able, not just because the individual action may save a
life, but because all the individual actions added together
may represent a significant democratic force in the global inequalities
debate. (However I do remain rather dubious about the whole concept.)
The web address is: http://www.thehungersite.com
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Tony Jarvis [log in to unmask]
School of Earth Sciences and Geography
Keele University, Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG.
Tel: 01782 583095 Fax: 01782 715261
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