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FAQ about Hunger
FAQ
about Bhookh.com
FAQ about Hunger
What do you mean by Bhookh?
We focus on chronic, persistent hunger as distinct from the famine
emergencies that make the news. Less than 10 percent of those who
die from hunger die because of famine.
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Isn’t hunger just a question of distribution?
No. Almost every location on earth can produce enough food for its
population. Even India is self-sufficient in food production. In
fact government warehouses are over flowing with unbought subsidised
food. The challenge is that people cannot earn enough to buy the
food that is available.
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Isn’t population the real issue? Isn’t
hunger just a consequence of overpopulation?
It is simplistic to say that overpopulation causes hunger. Countries
like India has grown enormously in the last 50 years, while hunger
has decreased. If population were the cause of hunger, then hunger
would be a problem for the future, when in fact it was much worse
50 or 100 years ago.
Some would even say that hunger causes overpopulation
– in countries where many children die, families have more
children to compensate.
In truth, the issues are inextricably inter-linked.
Population growth makes it far more difficult to build the schools,
health centers and other services needed to have a healthy and productive
population. And only when people know their children will live will
they stop having so many children.
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How can you say progress is being made when
I hear estimates that the number of hungry people is the same or
even increasing?
While the number of hungry people may have remained the same or
even increased marginally it is substantial progress as compare
to the rate with which the overall population has increased
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Where are the hungry people of the world located?
More than one-third of the world’s hunger is in India. One-third
is in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the remainder is in "pockets"
of hunger in Latin America and the rest of Asia.
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How can you say progress is being made when
I hear estimates that the number of hungry people is the same or
even increasing?
While the number of hungry people may have remained the same or
even increased marginally it is substantial progress as compare
to the rate with which the overall population has increased
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What is Bhookh.com?
Bhookh.com is the India's first online activism site. It gives Internet
users the daily opportunity to quickly make a difference in the
fight to end hunger in India. In less than 5 seconds, visitors can
click on the "Give Free Food" button and, at no cost to
them and send food to the hungry. The staple food is paid for by
Bhookh.com sponsors.
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Who owns and operates Bhookh.com?
Vikas Sutaria with your help, works to make it a trend-setter in
online activism and in the fight to end hunger in the country.
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What happens when I click on the "Give
Free Food" button? Does it cost me anything?
Two things happen when you click on the button: 1) your click is
registered with our computer server and is added to the daily results,
and 2) it moves you to the Thank You page where tiles bearing the
names of that day's site sponsors are displayed. There is absolutely
no charge to you; the food is fully paid for by the sponsors.
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How does the site work? Who pays for the food?
The site's sponsors pay for your daily click. The sponsors purchase
tiles on the Thank You page for a certain amount of time. Bhookh.com
then tabulates the number of people who click during that time frame
and bill the sponsor for the appropriate amount. Bhookh.com donates
this money towards food for the hungry.
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How do you calculate the amount of food given
by visitors' clicks?
Once a day, you can click on the "Give Free Food" button
and fund the purchase and distribution of a cup of staple food for
a person in need. Each sponsor on the Thank You page pays per click.
The amount paid is based on the type and structure of advertising
agreement they have with Bhookh.com. The two keys to the success
of Bhookh.com are sponsors, and visitors like you. The more sponsors
the site has, the more food is given to the hungry with each click.
The more visitors who click each day, the greater the total amount
of food we give to the hungry. So please remember to click every
day. And if you know of an organization that would want to sponsor
Bhookh.com, please email us at vikas@Bhookh.com. In addition to
the organization's name, please also include any contact information
you have.
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How often can I click on the "Give Free
Food" button? Can I just keep clicking and give thousands of
cups of food at once?
You can click once a day on Bhookh.com. Our agreement with our sponsors
only allows us to count one click, per person, per calendar day.
A monitoring system is set up to check this. While you could click
on the button a hundred times, this would only generate one cup
of food. In the meantime, our system would be slowed down, or possibly
overloaded, preventing other visitors' clicks from generating funding.
Please note that we do count clicks received through company firewalls,
proxy servers, etc., to the best of our ability. We make every effort
to count every click as fairly and accurately as possible. Make
Bhookh.com your home page so you remember to click every day. Please
click here for instructions. Depending on the speed of your modem,
it might take you only a few seconds each day to give a free gift
of food.
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When does the new calendar day start?
The new calendar day starts at midnight Indian Standard Time.
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Why am I seeing cookie requests when I visit
your site? Are they required?
There are two situations in which this may occur. First, some of
our underwriting sponsors (whose banners are loaded from their sites,
not ours) may attempt to drop cookies for tracking purposes. Second,
we may drop cookies to track your click history, in order to show
you how often you have clicked. Please note that showing your giving
history on the thank you page is currently disabled, but we hope
to offer it again in the future. Neither of these is required to
give free food, and you may feel free to reject cookies without
any impact on your click.
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What is Bhookh.com's communication policy?
We respectfully request that people do not send unsolicited messages
promoting Bhookh.com to people they do not know or post inappropriately
to newsgroups or in other places. We understand that this is done
with good intentions. However, anything regarded as unsolicited
email (spam) is not helping our cause but, in fact, is hurting it.
Unsolicited email can alienate people who might otherwise visit
Bhookh.com and give free food to the hungry.
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Is Bhookh.com a non-profit organisation?
Yes. Bhookh.com is a non-profit organisation.
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How can I help Bhookh.com in the fight against
world hunger?
TThere are two ways you can show support:
1) Visit Bhookh.com everyday and spread the word.
2) The site needs as many sponsors as possible as the traffic on
the site
keeps growing and more and more cups of food are required to be
donated. If
you know someone who is interested in sponsoring please ask them
to contact
us. For contact details click here.
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How can I help Bhookh.com find sponsors?
The more sponsors we have, the more food you will be able to give
each time you click on the "Give Free Food" button. We
appreciate your help in finding sponsors.
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Can I link my Web site to Bhookh.com?
Yes! Anyone can link to Bhookh.com. Click here for more information
and a collection of banners and buttons. Another great way to help
is to include Bhookh.com's URL (http://www.Bhookh.com) in the signature
block of your outgoing email messages. Feel free to copy and paste
the sample text below for use in your signature block:
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Can I make a financial donation to Bhookh.com?
Yes. However, at this time Bhookh.com is not yet a registered public
trust so your donation will not be tax exempt.
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How do I contact your organization?
Sending an email to vikas@Bhookh.com is a quick and easy way to
contact us. Click here for more contact details.
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