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Fighting Hunger Worldwide

We wish to draw the attention of all our visitors to a website at which they can cause businesses to donate food to the starving without cost to the visitor.

The Hunger Site is an ingenious program devoted to alleviating malnutrition and its horrendous costs, which include over 24,000 deaths a day across the Third World, by far most of them of children. When a visitor clicks on the donate-food button, a business sponsor donates to the United Nations' World Food Program ("WFP") the cost of some dry grain that when cooked amounts to 1/4 cup of food. The Hunger Site has more than one sponsor, each of which contributes 1/4 cup per click, so that presently each click produces a contribution of over 2 cups, at no cost to the person clicking. Each visitor can click once a day (to control this, the site requires that a would-be donator's computer accept "cookies"). After one clicks, a screen appears to show which sponsors have donated food at his or her behest. It's a form of advertising based on visibility and good will.

An individual person, John Breen of Bloomington, Indiana, came up with this inspired idea, and created a website to make it work on June 1, 1999. In the year 2000, it produced about 9,502 metric tons (20,945,544 pounds, worth $3.4 million, in donations, 2/3 of them from the United States. This is consistent with but even higher than the pattern of efforts to alleviate hunger generally.

The WFP receives no funding from UN member-state dues, only voluntary contributions, and the United States, one country of the UN's 185 member countries, contributes over half of the WFP's budget.

The Hunger Site homepage in 1999 contained the first fascinating and disturbing animated map below that showed the frequency of death by starvation among the 32 countries worst affected by hunger. In 2000, it substituted the second animated map below, which shows a very different pattern (tho it's hard to believe world starvation patterns changed that much in a year or two). Watch both for two or three minutes to get a sense of how desperate people widely scattered on this benighted planet are, and you may be moved not just to click the donate-food button but also to consider how necessary the Expansionist Party's program is. Plainly the current organization of this planet is catastrophic. Something must be done, and we think we know what that is: democratic world union under the Constitution of the United States, so that resources, like food, can be moved quickly, as of right, from places where they are in excess to others where they are in short supply.

Map 1:  The Hunger Site's 1999 map

Map 2:  The Hunger Site's 2000 map

While it is of course preferable that local people provide for themselves, and Third World development is the long-term cure to the problem of hunger, millions can't wait for eventual development. They are dying now, and we, as rich nations and as conscientious individuals, must do something now. Charitable donations of food may be a stopgap, but they are an absolutely necessary measure until long-term solutions can take hold.

XP has checked the page of thanks from the WFP that The Hunger Site links to (by going to the UN's homepage, then to the WFP, then to the WFP's information area) and it is legitimate. So be confident that you are not wasting time nor supporting a scam.

If you are not already in the habit of donating food thru The Hunger Site, please go to that area now, and bookmark it. At that site you can as well make donations (without personal cost) to several other causes, including rainforest preservation.  (If you are a new visitor to our own site, don't forget to return to our index for more information about the Expansionist Party.)

Click on the button below to go to The Hunger Site. Read its various pages of information about world hunger. If you decide this is something you want to support (and we hope you will), bookmark that page for DAILY action. Make it part of your routine that each day you log onto the Internet, you donate food thru The Hunger Site.

The URL is http://www.TheHungerSite.com. (The Hunger Site is not affiliated in any way with the Expansionist Party and, tho we endorse its work, we do not in any way suggest that it endorses our political program.)

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