Alhamdulillah, here is another site that makes donating and helping the needy very easy and simple.
It's even simpler than Socialvibe because you don't have to sign up as a member, you just play and donate! Both Free rice and Socialvibe support the World Food Programme, so whichever you wish to click on (left or right), you're still contributing to help those in need of food due to natural disasters, conflict, poverty, poor agricultural infrastructure and over-exploitation of the environment.
Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to the health worldwide; greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
There are 1.02 billion undernourished people in the world today.
A person dies of hunger and malnutrition every 6 seconds.
More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women.
907 million people in developing countries alone are hungry.
10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths.
The number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007 and 40 million in 2008, largely due to higher food prices.
Every year World Food Programme (WFP) feeds more than 20 million children in school feeding programmes in some 70 countries. In 2008, WFP fed a record 23 million children.
Support World Food Programme, support those in need. It only takes a few minutes.
Assalamualaikum..
p.s: credits to my sister for suggesting Free rice and providing the links and sites =P
Reference: http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats.
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