Comments on: Play A Game And Help End Global Hunger

By: teriyaki joe

teriyaki joe — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:56:09 +0000

I agree with TheCpa about UN inefficiency. Frankly, the UN is worthless and wasteful. I’ll continue to choose Kiva.org any day of the week over the UN. Also, donating food is noble, but we should be spending more of our money and energy on teaching these countries about infrastructure, irrigation, production, and democratic and capitalistic principles. Teach them to fish, then teach them to protect their fisheries. Many of these countries are so screwed up politically that many of the people being saved from hunger are being stolen from and then literally slaughtered by dictator governments.

So feed them? Of course! This is not at all a knock on poverty.com, quite the contrary, I admire them immensely. I just think more of us should stress the importance of more efficiently run private church, community, and educational organizations (which they rightly list on their site). Thank you John Breen for your work!

By: smartmove

smartmove — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:21:15 +0000

No matter how small one’s contribution maybe, actually doing something to stop hunger around the world is a noble deed. I hope many would follow suit.

By: The Happy Rock

The Happy Rock — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:52:42 +0000

I agree the UN reputation certainly has a dubious past, but I still love the spirit of the website. Maybe a better hunger organization could provide more credibility to the site.

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Play a word game and feed the hungry - Smart Spending — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:42:08 +0000

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By: Thecpa

Thecpa — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:49:18 +0000

Happy Rock,
Very insightful post. However, the UN has little credibility with the world any more. This past week AP reported that the UN had revised downward significantly the number of AIDS cases worldwide it had previously reported. The article is posted on msnbc.mns.com. One critic was quoted as saying that the inflated numbers were to gain public support and donations. It just makes me a little suspicious of any numbers put out by the UN.

Don’t get me wrong. There are needy and hungry people in the world. But where does the “25,000 people die per day from hunger” statistic come from? It would be better for us to take a plane and food to one of the under developed countries and feed the hungry ourselves than give the UN the money to do it.

FreeRice.com is certainly a creative idea to get people involved with this issue. It sounds like fun and I certainly hope it will succeed.

Happy Thanksgiving!