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Posted by: Boson Nov 17 2009, 11:15 AM

Those of us of a certain age will remember http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jEnTSQStGE and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kiYAIM4N_A

They were the rock/pop music industry response to a food crisis in Ethiopia. The http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj2jf0US8zI was very shocking and shocked the world into action.

Band Aid and Live Aid raised lots of money and provided lots of help, this has been ongoing. This all happened 25 years ago.

You would think then that there should not be a problem now, however the World Food Programme estimates that there are even more hungry people in the world today and in Ethiopioa and Kenya war and drought meant that the situation is as bad as ever and people are starving.

I am raising this here because I know GMC is a caring community and many of you will want to help.

You can help very easily and at no cost to yourself simply by going to http://www.freerice.com/ where by answering a few simple questions you can send rice to feed hu
ngry people.

It may even help some of you for whom English is your second language improve your vocabulary.

Please everyone lets all commit to 5 min of our time and try to help.

Thanks

Posted by: Staffy Nov 17 2009, 11:38 AM

So I just gave some 600 corns, which took me 10 minutes because of my bad english.....
Come on guy's, this is for a good sake!!! No bogus!

//Staffay

Posted by: Sollesnes Nov 17 2009, 12:08 PM

Ah, I used to sit on this every day before.
*bookmarking the website*
It really is great, and takes no time at all

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Nov 17 2009, 01:43 PM

Yeah, it takes like 2 3 minutes,

just was there, thanks for sharings these important helpful websites,

Posted by: audiopaal Nov 17 2009, 03:02 PM

Cool
I've donated 500 grains of rice so far!

Helps vocabulary too, as you said

Posted by: MirkoSchmidt Nov 17 2009, 04:43 PM

wow, nice site... thanks for sharing... very usefull for all nonamerican here... and very usefull to the hungry people! many thanks!

Posted by: Tolek Nov 17 2009, 05:10 PM

That site is pretty cool. I used to use it frequently some years ago, but then I forgot about it.
I recommend installing the toolbar. There´s a search engine by yahoo! which allows to gain a lot of grains after some searches.

Posted by: Boson Nov 18 2009, 11:07 PM

Im bumping this because GMC has not made enough rice yet!!!!

Posted by: Jesse Nov 19 2009, 07:46 AM

Do you remember Farm Aid?

hows it possible to donate rice this way? xD

I got em 510 granes!!!

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Nov 20 2009, 07:20 PM

very nice site! a great cause.

I do remember Live Aid

my fav was queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDckgX3oU_w

Posted by: Boson Nov 21 2009, 12:42 AM

QUOTE (Jesse @ Nov 19 2009, 07:46 AM)

Do you remember Farm Aid?

hows it possible to donate rice this way? xD

I got em 510 granes!!!