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Slaktivism and Rice= Click Donations

11 Apr
2009

You’ve probably heard of freerice.com a site where donation and education come together to deliver food to people in Africa. Due to my financial constraints working in Sihua, Beijing while trying to live in Shuangjing on a local budget I’ve been looking through these slaktivism sites recently were you can donate by click through. No grueling volunteer work, no credit card transactions, nothing but pure unadulterated clicking. Trying to understand if these sites really work; is that money really being generated and donated to the right people?

I started looking more into places like Hunger Site, which donated more than 290 tons of food in one month about 5,000,000 clicks. This early success led to several copy cat sites, some good like the Breast Cancer Site, which led to 203.9 free mammograms in one month about 8,000,000 clicks.

I finally found my answer over at slate.com where they did the research to recommend some great sites doing great things. “Even though each click may amount to only a few pennies, I would make the most of them by using CharityUSA’s sites (five in total, including both the Hunger Site and the Breast Cancer Site), which donate 100 percent of the corporate sponsor’s money to respected charities such as Feeding America (formerly America’s Second Harvest) and Mercy Corps. If you have more time to kill, or rusty vocabulary skills, try FreeRice, an educational game site run by the U.N.
World Food Program and Harvard’s Berkman Center that gives 10 grains of rice to the UNWFP for every question you answer correctly. They’ve donated more than 62 billion grains of rice in less than two years. Procrastination has never felt so worthwhile.”

Please donate a click to the U.N.
World Food Program.