Click Here to Save the World

This website is associated with the World Bread Institute which buys and distributes food to the hungry and helps the hungry feed themselves.  The World Bread Institute is involved in both domestic and global food distribution.  They work within the United States on nutrional lunches for children, food stamps and welfare assistance and reform.  They work throughout Africa on food distribution, education and sustainability issues.

Other Sites

There are many, many other sites where you can donate money to hunger issues through clicking.  Several of these such as hungerfighters.com, oneclickonemeal.com and childrecare2.com are one click a day sites.  They are set up to donate money based on clicks per day instead of being formatted as games where you can earn increasing amounts for play.
There are also sites dedicated to education, health promotion, saving animals, saving the environment, forrests and plants, promoting safety, etc. etc. etc.  The list is seemingly unending and growing daily.

Does this Really Work?

It appears so, yes.  Since $30 billion a year is made on internet revenue from ads and clicking, a small percentage of this could really make a huge difference.  These sites can, through their donations, help the distributors of food and water, save lives.  The amount of people using these sites (i.e. clicking) can generate the revenue necessary for these sites to pass on.  I would be careful however and make sure to read the FAQ page on the site.  If you really want to help and ensure that your time is doing some good you can donate money to any charity of your choice.  Again, look into where the money goes.  Make sure that most of the money is going straight to help people instead of being tied up in administrative costs.  There are good charities, great charities and mediocre ones.  You can also volunteer to spend your time and money locally helping people in your own community.

Can’t I Just Make a Program to Click?

The answer is yes, you could.  However, the sites claim two problems with this.  First, it would overload their servers so that real people could not click and play (and learn in some cases).  This would discourage people from revisiting these sites.  Secondly, without real people playing and resulting company sponsorship, no money would be generated and there would be no money to distribute.  The companies would soon notice that their ads were not reaching anyone and would stop advertising.  This would collapse the whole system.

So go ahead and click away!  Maybe you can relieve some of your guilt of surfing on the job or instead of doing housework.