Click to Give and Progeria

[Alexandra Awesome]

Those interested in doing good and decreasing World Suck can do so easily, quickly, and daily...

ClicktoGive and their second website are two that I visit daily. There are six tabs on the second site: Hunger, Breast Cancer, Child Health, Literacy, Rainforest, and Animal Rescue. When you click the "Click here to give" button on each tap, you give to a different cause. In each case, the advertisements that appear on the site (after the button is clicked) donate to the cause. Some sites are able to tell you specific numbers, while others, because of varying prices, cannot. When you click on The Hunger Site each day, you give 1.1 cups of food to the hungry daily and click at The Rainforest Site helps preserve 11.4 square feet of rainforest. Imagine the difference it would make if everyone clicked each day!
ClicktoGive works in the same way, where ads on the website allow you to give to causes with an importance to you. This site is doing their best to help five causes: Animal Care, Stop Child Abuse, Shelter Homeless, Feed the Poor, and Fight Cancer.

In addition to these sites, I also regularly visit GoodSearch. This is a Yahoo! powered search engine and each search you make gives money to a charity or school of your choice. The charity I selected is the Progeria Research Foundation (see below).You can search the web, images, videos, YellowPages, and shopping. GoodSearch also has something called Goodshop which allows you to purchase items through online stores like Amazon, eBay, and Target. If you click to these stores through the site, some of the money you pay for your items go to the charity you have selected. You may also check how much money GoodSearch has given to your charity through everyone's searches and purchases.

Click here to watch a video about Progeria.
Progeria is a rare and fatal genetic condition. Babies with Progeria appear healthy at birth but as they begin to grow, there aging accelerates much faster than an average child. Most Progeria children's faces grow much quicker than the rest of their bodies. Progeria usually includes hip dislocation, stiff, fragile skin, and heart disease. The average life of someone with Progeria is thirteen. This is the time that heart disease usually kills them.

[Emma Nordmeyer]

Oh my God. I'm sorry, but I just couldn't watch that video, it was to much. I feel so sorry for those progeria kids.