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Can a Billion Views Help a Billion People?
Friday, October 16, 2009
Last week,
we announced
that YouTube serves over one billion video views per day. It's a pretty staggering number, right? That's also the number of people in the world who don't have enough food to eat. According to the
UN World Food Program
, for the first time in history, there are
over 1 billion hungry people on Earth
-- that's one in seven humans.
Today, on World Food Day, the World Food Program (WFP) is showing how you, the estimated one billion internet users, can help the one billion people who live in hunger:
The WFP isn't alone in their efforts. Nonprofit Action Against Hunger is
calling on Al Gore
to create a video about hunger as he did for climate change with
An Inconvenient Truth
(after all, who better to mobilize the internet community than the man who invented it?) And singer Christina Aguilera is lending her voice to the cause with this video:
So
internet people
, we're challenging you to make a difference today. Just think...if every person
donated $1
to feed the hungry each time they viewed a YouTube video, we'd be a lot closer to a hunger-free world.
Ramya Raghavan, Nonprofits & Activism. This blog is
cross-posted
on the Huffington Post.
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