A Chance For Charity

Recently, Avery posted in his blog a post about the situation in Africa. He calls it "Project Africa".

The videos he posted there were quite informative! Do you know?

• 80 percent of Africa's 700 million people live on less than $2 a day. That's equivalent to around RM 6.50. So.. A bowl of kolo mee and teh-o-peng for breakfast and dinner. No lunch.
• One in three Africans are malnourished. That means that by average, every African family will have at least one (and usually more) who is prone to sickness and death.
• Nearly 30 million people in Africa are infected with HIV.

(Wee 2008)


It saddens me to see that, in our modern world where kids as young as seven brandish about their brand new N95s and PDA Phones, there are still parts of the world where a child is envied by his peers to have a plastic doll, although the doll is missing a head and a leg.

It is distressing to see that many of us take for granted of the food we savor daily - sometimes even refusing to eat when the dish doesn't meet our expectations - when many families in the world consider themselves lucky to be able to get by with dry bread and cabbage soup.


And we whine about our hardships everyday when there are people in the world who live through days of famine and droughts and epidemics without a single complaint.

Yes, I admit that I also do all of the above. I, too, am often ignorant of the things I should be grateful for.

That's why the past few days, I've gone crazy about Freerice.com! Found out about it through Jonathan Lau.


What's Freerice.com all about? Well, it's a charity website that spends all of its profits in donating rice and contributing towards the global effort of alleviating world hunger. It works like this. There is a word game there for visitors, and for every correct answer that a visitor gets, advertisers will pay Freerice.com, and the money in turn is used to purchase the rice.

That's why, for the past few days, I've been playing the word game like mad. Because I want to help out the world too. =)

So, people! It's 20 grains per correct answer - a small amount, that - but it costs nothing to play, so what have you to lose, right? You probably spend most of your waking time on the Net anyway.

And what's more?

Your rewards will be in Heaven.

Sources:
Wee, A 2008, Project Africa, ahah, viewed 24 January 2008, http://averys-bullcrap.blogspot.com/2008/01/project-africa.html.