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Online Trivia Game That Feeds Hungry Reaches One Million Users
The hunger-fighting game FreeRice.com announced yesterday that it has reached a milestone of one million registered players, who together are feeding the world’s hungry...
Rapper 50 Cent Feeds 2 Million Kids in Africa With Sales of New Energy Drink
His life was changed forever on a trip to Africa during the World Cup where he learned about the heartbreaking famine and widespread deaths...
35 International Chefs Jet to South Africa for Food Tour to Support Needy Children
Pans sizzling, steam rising and the tantalizing smells of foreign delicacies will delight the public during food demonstrations and gala dinners provided by 250...
Top 10 “Seriously Good News” From 2010
2010 was a year of disasters -- Haitian earthquake, Gulf oil spill and Pakistani flooding -- yet it was also a year of stunning...
Six Amazing Happy Endings Thanks to Facebook (Good News Network Exclusive)
We've lots of media stories featuring the wonders of Facebook. But these amazing outcomes will cheer even the surliest of social media critics.
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U.S. Program to Feed 390,000 Children in Haiti, Afghanistan
Thanks to a Food for Education program, the United States will donate 11,000 tons of rice, vegetable oil, yellow peas and lentils valued at...
Random Act of Kindness for 93 Dollars Sparks $100,000 In Donations To Food Bank
When Jenni Ware found herself unable to locate her wallet as she stood in front of the cash register at Trader Joe's market, a...
Antonio Banderas Named UN Goodwill Ambassador With Focus On Poverty
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has agreed to act as U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for the fight against poverty, the United Nations Development Program announced Wednesday....
25 Years Ago Today, the Song That Raised Millions for Charity
As America breaks the record for generosity with text messages for Haiti, we can draw inspiration today from another milestone in giving, a quarter...
Time Calls it “The Decade From Hell”… NOT!
Time magazine named this "The Decade From Hell". The sensationalist headline ignores all the good things that happened, so we, at the Good News...
Record-Breaking 173 Million People Take Stand With UN Against Poverty
Smashing a Guinness World Record, more than 173 million people around the world joined forces with the United Nations to call on global...
Gates Gives $120 million to Help Poor Farmers Boost Output
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it will donate a total of $120 million in a bid to boost agricultural production, marketing...
Buddhist Monk Rescuing Nature in South Korea
Displaying an iron will that vexed the bureaucrats, the 5-foot-tall, 90-pound monk waged a one-woman battle that included dozens of sit-ins and hunger...
Fast Food Operator Kicks In $80 Million to Help Feed Schoolchildren
Lunches for over 200 million hungry schoolchildren in the developing world will be delivered, thanks to a commitment of $80 million by leading restaurant...
Unilever Employees Fund Pakistan Food Program With Payroll Donations
A joint venture launched yesterday with the United Nations food agency will allow the employees of industrial giant Unilever to pledge a percentage of...
London Financier Gives Half Billion Pounds to Charity
"A SUPER-RICH City financier has given nearly HALF-A-BILLION pounds to charity — the largest ever single donation by a Briton — to help poor...
UN Increases Food Aid by $1.2 Billion
The UN World Food Program said today it will provide $1.2 billion in additional food aid in the 62 countries hit hardest by the...
UN Welcomes Bush’s Call for $770M in Global Food Aid
The UN World Food Program has thanked President Bush “for his urgent call to action to combat the advance of hunger among the world’s...
Quarter Million People Fed Through Playing of Internet Game
You gotta try the new Internet game in which you choose the correct definition of a word -- the words keep getting harder,...
Ethiopian Farmers Boosted By Improved Seed
Five years ago, Wegene Abebe was just another local peasant eking out a living in Tijo, 220km southeast of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa;...