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I’d like to ask you to take just two minutes of your Internet time (from checking email, web-surfing or blog-hopping) to check out these very special websites:

The Hunger Site
For just a click a day, the website promises to donate a cup of food for the hungry. If you can click-thru on an ad or to a site that interests you in the course of your surfing, why not take a moment or two to click-thru to this site? Hungry people in places like Africa will thank you for it even if they don’t know how their food came about. Pelf also blogged about it sometime back here.

FreeRice
This is also another feed the hungry site, but they do it differently by making you exercise your grey matter a little bit in the process. You have to play a word game, and for every word you get correct twenty grains of rice will be donated. There’ll be a visual graphic on your screen showing you how many grains of rice you’ve successfully donated and I find that really motivating (for me, at least) to keep on playing the word game. Not only do I get to enhance my vocabulary, I also get to do a bit for charity at the same time.

So, can you take a bit of time to click-for-charity? Do a good deed everyday :o)

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This post has been published in The Good Rabbit.

I don’t know about you, but my dentist recommends that I change my toothbrush every 3 months. I don’t brush my teeth as hard as I brush my toilet bowl, but still, toothbrushes are meant to be replaced every 3 months! Well, if you use an Oral-B toothbrush, you could rely on the fading blue stripe on the bristles as an indication that it’s time to get a new one, but if you aren’t, just set your alarm to ring every 3 months, LOL.

Image credit: Magdalena.

So what do you do with all those old toothbrush you’re accumulating? WHAT?! You mean, you throw them all away?! Some of the many uses of an old toothbrush:

1. Scrub shower corners, tile and the bottom of your shower sliding door if you have one.
2. Have a keyboard? Use the toothbrush to clean between the keys.
3. Clean out your lemon or garlic press with a toothbrush.
4. Brush your combs clean with an old toothbrush.
5. Clean your finger nails after gardening.
6. Clean and oil tools and car parts.

- Compiled by Gloria Campos @ AboutMyPlanet

Recommended reads:

• How can I reuse or recycle … old toothbrushes?
• Extraordinary uses for toothbrushes
• Uses for old toothbrushes

Poverty and hunger go hand-in-hand. Hunger increases susceptibility to disease, impedes learning and leaves a person weak and unable to work—and without the means to buy or produce nourishing food.

Programs offering skills training, microloans and seed banks for replanting work to break the cycle of poverty and hunger.

Photo credit: Paul Jeffrey/UMCOR.

Did you know that:

• One child dies of hunger every 5 seconds?
• Hunger affects more than 840 million people worldwide. More than 300 million of these people are in Africa?
• Southern Africa is often plagued by crop failures, food shortages and famine resulting from prolonged drought?

Global Impact member charities, including Freedom from Hunger, Heifer International, Oxfam America, TechnoServe, ECHO, Church World Service and United Methodist Committee on Relief, teach farmers techniques to increase their crop and livestock yields.

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Your gift of $100 can help ten families to receive seeds, seedlings, saplings and chicks—and the necessary training—to start a homestead garden and to cultivate fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin A and other micro-nutrients.

Global Impact is dedicated to helping the poorest people on Earth. Representing more than 50 of the most respected U.S.-based international charities in giving campaigns across the nation, Global Impact touches more than 400 million lives worldwide through disaster relief, education, health training and economic programs that promote self-sufficiency.