The Donation Page Is Finally Up

The site itself won't allow me to publish my personal statement just yet because of technical issues, but this is what I plan to write. The link to where you can donate is attached to the bottom of the page:

Hey Everybody!

First off, let me thank you so much for showing up.

What you do here will genuinely benefit the world, a remarkable opportunity for those of you in the States and an incredible gift for the poor and starving of Africa and Asia.

This will be second famine of the year, my first sponsored, but the last time I went I accidently started the night before and lasted the complete fourty-four hours between then and the end of the famine I was participating in.

So I guarantee you that I will be able to stick it out, and if me not eating for 30+ hours is enough to motivate you to give up your money...

You might need to take another course of Personal Finance.

I've even got a few connections I could set you up with.

But that's not the point.

The point is where your money will go and what you will help to accomplish.

The restoration of the broken third and developing world.

Every $30 we raise together will feed, educate, medicate, and clothe one of World Vision's reached children for an entire month.

Each $360 will feed him for a year.

Now, as far as the stats go:

Every ten seconds a child under age five dies from preventable hunger-related causes.

There is enough food in the world to sufficiently feed each individual. Just think about how much we waste daily. We literally have garbage cans to collect our excess food once or twice a week.

The money required to expel poverty and starvation from this world is estimated to be around 20 Billion Dollars.

We spend that much on ice cream.

Every year.

Nine hundred and twenty five million people are starving right now. That's approximately three times the national population of the United States and roughly one seventh of the world's population.

Writing this and knowing that it's true both breaks my heart and makes me feel obliged to help in whatever means I possibly can.

I am giving up my birthday presents for the third time this year and encouraging those who would gift normally to rather donate to this cause. I am using my journal and my Facebook profile to make this is as public as possible.

Together, we can help fix the world.

http://support.worldvision.org/site/TR/30HourFamine/30HourFamine?px=1215125&pg=personal&fr_id=1610