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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What does the World Hunger Map really symbolize? This engaging worldmap illustrates
the approximate frequency and location of hunger-related deaths in our
world. Whenever a you see a burst of light, it symbolizes that someone
has just died from hunger in that area of the world. The illustration
is based on the statistics that 24,000 (plus) people die of hunger each
day (see About Hunger), which is equivalent
to one death every 4 or less seconds. Statistical data from the United
Nations is used to determine the relative frequency of hunger deaths in
each of the 32 countries with the highest hunger mortality. What happens when I
click on the "Click to Feed a Child" button? When you click on the button, your click registers with our click-counting software. The computer adds your food donation to the day’s totals. In that same moment the computer sends you the pop-up "Thank You For Your Donation" page. This page shows you the name of the sponsor or sponsors who made the food donation on your behalf. To learn more about the power of your 'click', and more about the power of sponsoring, please visit Donation Totals. Why doesn't it cost me anything? There is absolutely no charge to you for the donation; it is totally paid for by the sponsors. This is because, as you will notice on the Thank You For Your Donation page, they are happy to support a worthy cause while at the same time introducing themselves to you and extending an invitation to you to visit their website. Sponsors write a check directly to World Food Programme for 100% of the amount due for the donations generated by clicks on this site. See About Sponsors to learn more about 'your' sponsor, and to meet all our current and former sponsors.
How often can I click? You can click once every
day. A convenient way to do this is to bookmark the homepage of worldlegacy.org
as one your favorites. Please click here for instructions. Or you can
make the WorldLegacy homepage the page that automatically appears first,
every time you open your browser. Click here for instructions. It is powerful
to think that for every four seconds it takes you to click-to-feed, in
that amount of time you may prevent a death.
Do I really accomplish much by clicking every day? Is it worth the effort?
The second is literal. What is your participation worth, literally speaking? The cumulative effect of tens of thousands of people participating to donate food every day is so powerfully worthwhile, it is almost beyond belief. Imagine this, you have the power to click-donate one meal to one starving child, it would only take 24,000 people clicking here today to eliminate the estimated 24,000 deaths occurring today due to starvation. It is entirely feasible for this modest website alone to have many hundreds of thousands of people visiting it every day. Emphatically yes, together we definitely have the power to eliminate world hunger. Do I really accomplish much by becoming a sponsor? Is it worth the effort? Every sponsor donating per
click-donations makes a mind boggling contribution. Aside from the invaluable
company visibablity, goodwill etc. that you generate on your own behalf,
here a realistic example of what you accomplish for others --
How is the sponsor donated food distributed? The donated food is distributed through the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest food aid organization, with projects in 82 countries, including those in Africa, Asia and South America. They also work in conjunction with a number of other relief organizations (see About Hunger for more info and other hunger relief efforts). What kind of food is provided?
How much food is donated? Please see Donation Totals to see our site totals, and totals from countries around the world. The amount of food you donate each day depends on two factors: how many sponsors there are for that day, and how much each sponsor has pledged to donate. Each sponsor donates a minimum of s 1/4 cup of food per click - which is one meal. However if there are 4 sponsors, then you are donating 1 cup of food. When there are 10 sponsors, then you are donating 2 1/2 cups. When you see one individual sponsor on your Thank You Page a minimum of 1 cup of food for every click is being donated. Your Thank you page will usually say. At the very least, with every click you make, one meal is provided, more likely more than that.
What is in it for sponsors?
Each sponsor on the "Thank You For Your Participation" note pays one half cent per donation. This half cent buys food that, when cooked, is equal to a quarter cup of food. Thus, if there are 2 sponsors on the page, they combine to pay for a half cup of food per donation. If there are 4 sponsors on the page, they combine to pay for one cup of food per donation. If there are 6 sponsors on the page, they combine to pay for one and a half cups of food per donation, and so on. In addition to the quarter cup of food, the half cent also covers the relief organization’s necessary overhead and most of the transportation cost of the food, as described below. It is our hope and goal to continually increase the amount of food that we together are able to donate. In simple arithmetic here is how the cost is calculated for 2 sponsors combining to pay for one half cup of food. Each sponsor pays a half cent, so combined they pay 1 cent. Of that 1 cent, approximately 66% pays for the food itself, 10% pays for the relief organization’s overhead, and 24% goes toward the transportation of the food.
What does the food actually cost?
How do you get sponsors? Usually we are contacted as a result of our site visitors recommending us to potential sponsors (by printing out our sponsor page and sending it to prospective sponsors) or our visitors become sponsors themselves. Sometimes a sponsor will contact us as a result of hearing about us through a visitor having written an article in a newsletter, a letter to the editor etc., or because they have heard of our efforts in some other (usually donated) free media publicity related way. Word of mouth is our best means. The second most clicked-on item in the site (after the Click to Feed a Hungry Child button) is the "Send This Page To a Friend" feature on our homepage. The more sponsors we have, the more food you will be able to give each time that you click on the "Click to Feed a Child" button. Your help is appreciated more than we could ever adequately express, we could not succeed without you
Is this a Nonprofit Organization? World Legacy is not currently a nonprofit organization. Our development plans include becoming a registered Nonprofit Foundation in order to offer tax-free-donation benefits to our sponsors, however we take no profit from our sponsors either way. In order to chart our course in this direction we chose our domain name to reflect this distinction -- WorldLegacy.org (.org being the traditional domain registration naming convention for nonprofit organizations, humanitarian foundations etc.) Today we think of ourselves as a web site whose goal is to enable freedom from hunger. World Legacy was developed and is maintained and operated by SuccessKey.com -- whose mission is to enable success. Please visit our About Us page for more information.
What is World Legacy’s privacy policy? Our Privacy Policy Statement: World Legacy eminently respects the privacy of our site visitors. No site visitor is required to provide any personal information to visit the site or to 'click to feed a child'. No personal information is harvested electronically other than to count one click per day per site visitor. There is no emailing list collected, sold, shared or distributed in any way. What is World Legacy’s spam policy? Our Unwanted and Unrequested
Email Policy Statement: (Please note that the actual word spam
is a privately registered trademark): World Legacy does not support
email marketing, and respectfully requests everyone to refrain from sending
unsolicited email messages promoting World Legacy to people they do not
know, or post it in online newsgroups, forums etc. We understand good
intentions, however anything that could be regarded as 'unwanted' greatly
undermines and damages both our reputation and our cause. World Legacy
does no email marketing for this reason.
Yes, anyone may feel free
to link to World Legacy. Information and a collection of banners
may be found at Link To Us. "That one life has breathed easier because we have lived, that is success." -- Walt Whitman. Please visit: www.worldlegacy.org -- find out how one mouse click can save a life today -- one l click will send a meal to a starving child, at no cost to you. "The first freedom of man, I
contend, is the freedom to eat." – Eleanor Roosevelt. "Year 2000 The Official CULTURE
OF PEACE YEAR: Respect for all life, Reject violence, Share with others,
Listen to understand, Preserve the planet, Rediscover solidarity."
-- The U.N. Manifesto Note: More great quotes are available at About Hunger: "Quotes & Facts"
Can I make a financial donation directly to World Legacy? World Legacy itself
does not accept financial donations for food. 100% of the donation money
that is generated through World Legacy goes directly where it is intended
-- to eliminate world hunger. World Legacy does however, welcome and appreciate
web site development and operation donations, and website support of any
nature that helps us maintain a high quality website of true service.
What else can I do in the big picture, to help end world hunger? Click on Good Works! to learn about additional (free) ways you can lend support. Besides the larger international hunger relief organizations, your Chamber of Commerce or any church in your area will probably be able to refer you to local hunger organizations that do excellent work and need volunteers. Remember that many organizations are helping to end hunger by working at the root level to reduce poverty, illiteracy, and other social problems. It is a rewarding experience to feel how gratefully these organizations appreciate any help that you could give them. You may also be surprised to learn that 1 in 10 American children go hungry everyday, and that the number of 'food insecure' homes in the U.S. -- the only industrialized country in the world with widespread hunger -- is alarming with 31 million people at risk.. Volunteering online is a
powerful new concept. www.netaid.org,
dedicated to eradicating extreme world poverty through the power of the
Internet, has recently launched online
volunteering. This exciting site, developed by Cisco (the people who
pioneered the Internet) offers
lots of creative ways you can help, including shopping online at the
International Handicrafts Bazaar in support of poverty challenged villages
around the world.
What's the Bottom Line About Ending World Hunger? Believe it or not, it is
not the availability of food resources on the planet. Right now we have
enough food available to feed every man woman and child several pounds
of food a day. "It is the way people think about hunger that is the greatest
obstacle to ending it," says Peter Rosset, director of Institute for Food
and Development Policy, California, USA, in his recent book titled HUNGER
MYTHS.
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There
are two answers to this question; both are emphatically, yes. The first
is relative. What is your participation worth, relatively speaking? For
one of the 4 million mothers in Ethiopia (pictured here) -- powerlessly
watching her child starve to death as you are reading this -- the food
that you help provide is 'worth' inestimable value. Somwhere there is
a child dying of hunger every few seconds, those are the same seconds
you could be providing a meal.
World
Food Programme selects the most appropriate and transportation- suitable
food to distribute in any given country or situation. Grains such as rice,
wheat, and maize are the most common choices, being the staple foods for
most of the world’s population. These are all sources of complex carbohydrates
and protein. Other basic foods that are important staples in many cultures
include beans, millet, barley, and sorghum, a cereal grass (being distributed
in this photo).
Why
are the sponsors willing to pay for food donations on your behalf? Our
sponsors pay for the donations as a method of company promotion and public
relations which serves a worthwhile cause. Sponsors also view it simply
as very effective advertising in the same way that shows on public television
are funded by corporate sponsors, or any corporate donation to a worthy
cause. Promoting "Corporation Causes" enable them to achieve
many positive purposes at once: to get their name in front of people,
to be associated with a positive cause, and to generate good will towards
their company. Sponsors write a check directly to World Food Programme
for 100% of the amount due for the donations generated by clicks on this
site. See 
To
provide one half cup of food to a hungry child costs about two thirds
of one cent, in U.S. Dollars. Amazed at how little it takes? Here is how
this is figure was determined. The average price for staple foods per
metric ton was $231.07 in 1998 and $236.46 in 1997, according to published
United Nations statistics. This yields a two year average of $233.77 per
metric ton. A metric ton is 1 million grams, or 35,270 ounces at the standard
conversion of .03527 ounces per gram. This gives a price of .663 cents
per ounce, or about 2/3 of a cent per ounce of food. According to the
USDA serving formula for staple grains, each serving of one half cup of
cooked food is equivalent on average to one ounce of uncooked food, so
one half cup of cooked food costs about 0.66 of one cent, or .663 cents
to be exact. Knowing this it becomes easier to understand how we can easily
we can actually eliminate world hunger.
Can
we put a link from our own site to World Legacy? 
This
photo is of two orphaned Kosovo children as they wait for the food delivery
truck. In the big picture of eradicating world hunger you can have your
voice heard at the United Nations by signing the Year 2000 Manifesto along
with millions of others, including Nobel Prize Laureates. The United Nations
has designated The Year 2000 -