Let's Share Our Food Bounty with Hungry Children

As a child, I was horrified by the news images of Biafran babies who were starving to death, but I had no way to help. Now I can, and so I'm challenging my Twitter followers, Facebook friends and blog readers to help raise $50,000 towards the relief of the East African famine.

You don't have to attend an event or bake a cake or bid on anything. Just click the button in the right nav bar to make a donation via PayPal or credit card to The Humanitarian Coalition, which is made up of CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec, Plan Canada and Save the Children Canada. Or you can choose your own charity, like the Red Cross Horn of Africa Drought campaign. Until September 16, the Canadian government will match donations from individual Canadians.

Americans can donate too, but it won't be matched. Or you could set up something similar on your own site.

If you were able to spend $20 this week on a restaurant meal – or a batch of local fruit for preserving, or a pork belly to turn into charcuterie – please express your gratitude for our bounty by putting your next $20 into feeding kids who really, really need a break.

Let me know via email or in the comments, so I can post a list of donations with your name or anonymously and keep tabs on how much we've raised so far.

THANK YOU!

Photo from The Humanitarian Coalition's Flickr feed.