Sevenly // Feed My Starving Children

This week Sevenly (one of my all time favourite world-changing organisations!) is partnering with Feed My Starving Children to change the lives of starving children.

Sevenly operates by creating weekly cause campaigns where customers could purchase products that gave $7 to a weekly charity. Sevenly has successfully unlocked not only a way to crowd-fund for causes, but to drive massive social awareness as well. Their chosen cause this week, Feed My Starving Children, strives to eliminate starvation in children throughout the world by helping to instill compassion in people to hear and respond to the cries of those in need. Feed My Starving Children is a non-profit Christian organization committed to feeding God’s children hungry in body and spirit. The approach is simple: children and adults hand-pack meals specifically formulated for malnourished children, and we ship the meals to nearly 70 countries around the world. Click here to learn more about FMSC and how you can become involved.

Sevenly shares this story (along with this week's 1min campaign video) on their site:

"At three years old Shaimie weighed only 11 pounds. Having 8 children, her parents struggled to provide nutritious meals for everyone. Because of the lack of food, Shaimie was constantly sick and unable to walk, stand or even sit up. When she turned three, she still wasn’t able to speak, due to slow brain development caused by malnutrition. The life-threatening starvation that Shaimie experienced is just one example of the hunger crisis in the Philippines. Something needs to be done to save lives like Shaimie's.

THE SOLUTION
Thanks to the meals provided by Feed My Starving Children, Shaimie is still alive today and healthy again. This week, we want to help completely eliminate malnutrition from the island of Marinduque in the Philippines! With your support, we will rally together to feed and nourish as many starving children as possible!"


So make a HUGE difference to starving and malnourished children today! You can give through Sevenly by buying some of their incredible products (which donates and creates an opportunity to spread awareness by using the item as a talking point), you can donate directly to FMSC, volunteer with them, or simply share this cause via word of mouth, email or social networks. The bottom line is: we all have the power to make a difference in the fight to save children from starvation and eliminate world hunger!

Blessings!

Ronell x

ActionAid: Ready for Anything appeal

Today’s post is about ActionAid, a charity that is aiming for a world without poverty, by working with local people to fight hunger, seek justice for women and education for children, and cope with emergencies. You can find out more about what ActionAid does here.

Wherever there is poverty and injustice, in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas, ActionAid is working to help people free themselves from poverty. Whether they are building a well, hiring a teacher, or lobbying a government, Action Aid makes sure that every pound they spend goes as far as possible. You can read more about the specific details of where ActionAid works and how it spends the money raised on their site.

Over 300 million people are affected by disasters every year. The poorest and most vulnerable people are the hardest hit. Lives are at risk, communities are wiped out and families lose everything. Now there is also an opportunity for you to double your donation! From TODAY until 3 May, the UK Govt will match donations to ActionAid pound by pound as part of our Ready for Anything appeal. The extra money will go towards our emergency work - helping the world’s poorest people to survive disasters.

Together we can ensure the world’s poorest people are Ready for Anything. Donate now and help us to stop disasters becoming tragedies.

Donate now! Visit www.actionaid.org.uk/rfa or text ‘DOUB13 £10’ to 70070 to give £10. Double the difference you can make at no extra cost to yourself!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“Give generously to the poor, not grudgingly, for the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.” {Deuteronomy 15:10}

The Hunger Site: Free Clicks for Free Food!

**Remember Sainsbury’s Million Meal Appeal today and tomorrow** (http://365days2changetheworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/fareshare-sainsbury-meal-appeal.html)

**Remember The Awake Arise conference today** (http://365days2changetheworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/awake-arise-conference-preston-6th.html)

In the past few years I stumbled upon a fantastic site called ‘The Hunger Site’. It is a charitable site that sells a whole host of items that donate to good causes. It also has a lot of excellent information on causes that need supporting and how we can help.

One of my favourite features (which I use every day that I log onto the internet using my laptop) is ‘daily free clicks’. Basically, you visit http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1 and click on the ‘Click Here to Give - it's FREE’ button, which generates money for charity, paid for by site sponsors. When you click, these companies and groups actually pay for your click! That's 365 free chances each year to help!Hungersite gives 100% of sponsor advertising fees to their charitable partners. The Hunger Site has given over 846,104,458 cups of food since June 1999 (figure updated monthly).

I have added a bookmark called ‘click’ to my bookmark bar at the top of my web browser to help me remember. Other suggestions would be to set www.hungersite.com as your home page, or to sign up for a free click reminder email (under the big ‘Click Here to Give - it's FREE’ button). You control how often you get a reminder! Bonus: if you are a new registrant to the GreaterGood Network (owners and operators of The Hunger Site), they will make an extra donation to the cause when you sign up.

Over the next few days, I will be promoting the different ‘Click Here to Give - it's FREE’ buttons for the hunger site to increase the chances of people finding this amazing site! For those of you reading regularly, I apologise for the repetition!

Thank you click sponsors!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.” {Proverbs 28v27}

Free Rice: Play online for rice to feed the poor!

This has got to be one of the most distracting (yet conflicting) sites ever! You get distracted because you are so into answering the quizzes.. then you feel bad because you are not working.. and then you remember you are actually feeding the hungry by donating rice! So conflicting (just ask @m_ager!). Go to http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1387
to have a go!
How it works is, you basically go to the site and start answering questions. Each question you get right, you earn 10 grains of rice to donate to the World Food Programme to help end hunger! (don't worry, rice does not get taken away from starving kids if you get a question wrong!). Now that does not seem like a lot of rice, but it soon starts adding up as you get more and more addicted to the quizzes!
The home page takes you to the 'English Vocabulary' quizzes, but there are more subjects to choose from! If you go to: http://freerice.com/category
you can choose from the following categories:
HUMANITIES
-Famous Paintings
-Literature
-World Hunger
MATH
-Multiplication Table
-Basic Math (Pre-Algebra)
LANGUAGE LEARNING
-German
-Spanish
-French
-Italian
SCIENCES
-Human Anatomy
ENGLISH
-English Vocabulary
-English Grammar
CHEMISTRY
-Chemical Symbols (Full List)
-Chemical Symbols (Basic)
GEOGRAPHY
-World Landmarks
-Identify Countries on the Map
-World Capitals
-Flags of the world
(there is also a section for American SAT questions: http://freerice.com/#/sat/1521289)
This is an amazing site for teachers to use as a time filler in class too (I know the upper primary and the secondary sections of my school use this site).
Enjoy the fulfilling and meaningful distraction!
Blessings!
Ronell x
"If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday." {Isaiah 58v10}