How You're Helping
The Hunger Site was founded to focus the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need: the eradication of world hunger. Every click on the yellow "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button funds food for chronically hungry people in the U.S. and around the world. Visit The Hunger Site and click every day!
When you shop at The Hunger Site store, each item you buy also helps fund food for the world's hungry -- at no extra cost to you! The chart below shows cups of food generated by shopping at The Hunger Site store over the past six months. Funding for these cups of food is goes to our charity partners, Mercy Corps, Feeding America, and Millennium Promise. Your shopping here makes a difference; thank you for all you do!
Did you know?
During our "Extra Donation Days," your shopping at GreaterGood Network stores does even more to help! Here is what we have accomplished together through the additional funding generated by our Extra Donation Days in 2009:
- Funded 83,847 meals for families in the United States through Feeding America
- Funded clean water for 48 children in Ethiopia through A Child's Right
- Funded $2,196 of humanitarian aid for refugees in Eastern Congo through Mercy Corps
- Funded 62 Berkeley Darfur Stove subsidies for refugees through the Darfur Stoves Project
- Funded six years of support for 3 girls in Nepal - enough to rescue them from an entire lifetime of indentured servitude - through the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation
- Funded over 10 months of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food to help children recover from being malnourished through Partners in Health
- Funded 63 pairs of shoes to help girls through CAMFED
- Funded 33 school uniforms and necessary supplies for a year through Central Asia Institute
- Funded heating for 13 classrooms in Afghanistan for the whole winter through the Central Asia Institute
- Funded 11,346 toys for children in need through Bears Without Borders
- Funded 3,019 trees to be planted in the Michoacan forest through the Michoacan Reforestation Fund
In 2010, we can do even more, helping to provide food, clean water, and relief to people in the U.S. and around the world. Together, we're making the world a better place. Thank you for your support!
