Thanks to Erin Wilson in Canada for this post. I love the idea of taking 100 friends in Africa to dinner.

Take 100 friends out for dinner…
   

For the price of one value meal at a Canadian McDonalds, you can feed 100 orphans in Swaziland:

$5 = 100 meals of fortified rice and soup.
$25 = 500 meals.
$50 = 1000 meals.

Didn’t think you had enough money for a child sponsorship programme?  Think again.  The good folks at Five for 50 make it easy to make a difference. While you’re thinking about it, TK linked this great Time Magazine photo essay, if you’d like to see what how this plays out around the world.

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