The Truth About The Hunger Site And Why Instant Karma Is Not A Good Idea

I think there are also too many of these charity organizations. Why would there be if there's no profit in this? It is obviously better for the receivers of aid to have one big supplier of quality aid rather than a hundred crappy ones sending them leftovers. The World Food Programme http://www.wfp.org/english/ can be trusted to deal with the hunger problem seriously, and not for profit. Here you can simply make donations instead of clicking ads all day

You are right Martin123. The thing is even the genuine Aid organizations suffer because of the proliferation of hundreds of such private charities. And I am sure even people must not be donating with all the confusion and chaos.

of these organizations. Thanks for educating us.

Always welcome, Champagnedreams. All of us ought to be aware. If we get fleeced, it's still okay, but if we are adding to the misery of others, that's bad.

I don't understand the statement that food aid "screws up" local production... The World Food Program and many other organizations provide much-needed aid. In many places there IS no local production due to flood, famine, displacement, etc.

Users of the Hunger Site simply click on a button, they're not paying anything so they can't be "fleeced."

Give a man a fish he will eat for a day, teach him fishing he will eat for life. First of all Flood, famine, displacement are usually a local phenomena (not the entire country is affected). Irrespective of the area affected, the neighborhood production and distribution suffers because no one will buy their yield, when things are available for free. And very soon the neighborhood will be drawn into the Aid. If the Aid continues for long the entire area becomes dependent on the aid and production becomes zilch. After some more time the cost of growing something in the backyard becomes more than what it would be buying it from the market. Therefore the entire community's eating and producing pattern gets affected. (The soil may be conducive to wheat, but if wheat is available cheap or next to free in the market who will produce wheat).

There are many deaths due to hunger in many third world / developing countries. Not many of them are having food shortages. In India millions of tonnes of wheat is thrown away after becoming rotten in the storage. We still have hunger deaths and malnutrition problems. Read this article just published yesterday:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7489816.stm

I can assure you that the figures are moderated.

It is the same as the current oil crisis. The price will keep increasing till such time we address the actual cause of the crisis. Any amount of extra production of oil is not going to solve the problem.

And don't be fooled. People are being fleeced even when they just click. Firstly the website is conning people by playing on their guilt ridden emotions and fraudulently offering them a "feel-good" act, the result of which will never be known to them. I think all of us internet users know for sure that the donation will not be made only by clicking on the click to donate button. A donation becomes due only when someone clicks on the ads of one of the sponsors (why would the sponsor pay if the clicker does not even visit his page). So by clicking meaninglessly all one will do is reduce the click through rate which means more numbers are clicking for a single donation.

Therefore, assuming that the website actually donates the entire click money (which i doubt), if you really want to feed people, you ought to click on the sponsors links. But if everyone was to do it. The sponsors would run away for the fear of being broke and then the site also will crash. Moreover it also becomes a fraud, since the clickers are anyways not interested in visiting the website.

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Hey Taprial,

Great points and article. I am glad that you put some research into it to determine if it was a legitimate charity. I won't be clicking either.

Good call on "SEO's" borderline spamming too....

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Thanks FreeCracker. I don't care if people spend their entire day clicking. But spamming is something i don't take kindly to.

I'd rather take my advice from those that actually benefit from the program. Than someone who thinks that helping others, no matter how small the contribution, is a waste of time.

"The Hunger Site is a free "click to give" site in which staple food is paid for by site sponsors and funds are donated to the America's Second Harvest Network.

These funds enable us to distribute the staple food that was donated through clicks made at The Hunger Site. This staple food is distributed to hungry Americans who obtain emergency food assistance through the food banks and food-rescue organizations in our network.

In addition to donating staple food, The Hunger Site also features the America's Second Harvest Network in monthly email newsletters, helping to put a face on the issue of domestic hunger"

http://www.secondharvest.org/who_helps_us/online_partners.html

(America's Second Harvest has been routinely recognized as one of Forbe's most efficient and dedicated charities and in Combined Federal Campaign literature has one of the highest percentage of commitment rates.)

A good point to be made from all this discussion is that clicking on the ads after the initial click would most likely generate more income from a pay-per-click rate from the sponsor, but I would say that if the website solicited clicks on sponsor ads just for the sake of generating that income, it would result in "invalid clicks" much like the AdSense program. Even if the amount generated from my click was a fraction of what is stated on the website, if 100,000 people click, it will add up. It's worth a few seconds of my time, because there are no hungry kids I can "give a candy to" sitting near my computer desk. If they were, they know where the kitchen is.

The thought of clicking daily while you read your email or other such online activities is not intended to suggest that that is all one should do to help those less fortunate, but as an additional act that takes less time than posting a comment on here.

If you do not wish to support the "click" program, support causes that are near and dear to your heart and share those causes with others here on Xomba so that you can raise awareness and perhaps encourage some people who may not be aware, to get involved as well. If your thing is not giving food to the hungry, maybe you believe in helping abused or endangered animals, building homes, running or riding for Multiple Schlerosis or teaching someone to read (or to fish).

Why some people feel the need to lambaste efforts that are designed to raise funds or, even at the least, awareness of good causes is beyond me.

Thank you very much for reading. I have no more to say on this particular thread, or on any other similar posts or comments. I will, however, continue to share info about humanitarian causes and encourage others to do the same. I am at peace with myself. I wish you the same.

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Now, I'm NOT saying the CharityInc-people are 'the devil'; but they ARE human, and humans will each inevitably prosper themselves before they will prosper "the needy" (even well-meaning charities are mostly in it because they realize that 'all good things done unto others are credits in the eternal accounts of the good-doers').

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There is no harm in charity. But, giving something or anything that is NOT really reaching the intended CAUSE or PEOPLE is a waste of time and effort and is only encouraging those MIDDLEMEN who probably profit the most from this and DON"T really need CHARITY in the first place.
What better way to begin than ..your own HOME!

I have always donated things in the physical form to the people directly, in their hands so that I know that they have got it. There is no doubt in my mind. From food, clothes, toys, ration and medicines. Never money!

Hunger Site and Second Harvest: I agree, they are the best people to take advice from, at least for people who believe in them. It is like a small terrorist pointing at “Who helps us” list in Osama’s website to exonerate himself.

Second Harvest – Steal From Peter To Feed Paul- Read this very interesting article to understand the modus operandi of Second harvest. The article is a bit dated but I guess the scheme does not change. Read the article here (must read)

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050818/news_1n18foodbank.html

I had mentioned in the main article that the money generated ends up with multinational food and pharma companies. If you need some more evidence just look at the Board of Directors list of The Second Harvest, here

http://www.secondharvest.org/about_us/board_of_directors/

For those who don’t want to waste their time, Procter & Gamble, DLA Piper (Law firm), Campbell Soup Company, Kraft (foods), ConAgra foods, The Pampered Chef, Steak n Shake, Masterfoods etc have their representatives on the board of Second Harvest. It is also a fact that food banks not under the control of Second Harvest are cash starved and experiencing dramatic food shortages, the sole reason being Second Harvest’s demand for exclusivity on donors.

Clicks: A click on the donate button results in zero and 100,000 zeroes add up to zero. Therefore even if 100,000 people click only on the donate button, outgo is zero. Money will flow out only if someone clicks on the sponsored ads. What is so difficult to understand about this?

It surprises me that a person who has the knowledge that there are more than 35 million food insecure people in America can’t find one in the neighborhood. And someone so passionate about helping people won’t get up from his computer to help someone in need.

The genuine compassionate people don’t go around trumpeting their actions, the actions give them peace. Sadly, however, the pseudos have this need to be validated and complimented every time they do anything as small as clicking once a day.

I am so lucky that I am not dependent on those clicks. Who wants to be indebted to people who just sit on their computers and keep clicking just to assuage their hunger for self-glorification.

Myth And Rawnak, Thanks for the words of wisdom.

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I had trouble getting into the site and then got caught up in something else and didn't go back...guess its a good thing. I do have to agree with Rawnak about Charity beginning at home...there is too much going on right here...I did like the idea of helping somebody (no matter where or who)with so little effort though - but now I must help myself. Good info Taprial +1
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That's not very healthy, taprial! ;)

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It is very unfortunate tat such things keep happening and tat too in the name of charity and are needy are left helpless...!!!

None of the good things in life are healthy...

You give a man a fish, ... paraphrasing ... he's fed for the next day or so (unless you add something oriental, in which case he's okay ... for a few minutes, I guess); but you teach him to find, catch, prepare and eat his own fish, you've fed him for as long as he'll feed himself!

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