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Fair trade:

"Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a "fair price" as well as social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of a wide variety of goods. It focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, chocolate and flowers." -Wikipedia

More information about fair trade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade

To buy fair trade products: http://www.transfairusa.org/content/WhereToBuy/


The Hunger site:

"The Hunger Site is the original click-to-donate site created in 1999 that gets sponsorship from advertisers in return for delivering users who will see their advertisements. The Hunger site encourages visitors to click a button on the site, once per day, asserting that each unique click results in a donation "equivalent" to 1.1 cups of food." -Wikipedia

More information about The Hunger site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Site

To click to donate free food (it's free!!): http://www.thehungersite.com/


FreeRice site:

"FreeRice is a website where users play various educational, multiple-choice games in order to raise money to fight world hunger. The games include English vocabulary (the game the site began with), multiplication tables, pre-algebra, chemistry (basic and intermediate), English grammar, basic foreign language vocabulary for English speakers (French, German, Italian, and Spanish), geography (world capitals and country identification), and art." -Wikipedia

More information about the FreeRice site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRice.com

To play the games to donate rice: http://freerice.com/