{"id":473,"date":"2007-08-06T11:59:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T11:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/08\/take-100-friend.html"},"modified":"2007-08-06T11:59:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T11:59:03","slug":"take-100-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/08\/take-100-friend.html","title":{"rendered":"Take 100 Friends to Dinner on $5?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Erin Wilson<\/a> in Canada for this post. I love the idea of taking 100 friends in Africa to dinner.<\/p>\n

\nTake 100 friends out for dinner…
\n    <\/h3>\n

For the price of one value meal at a Canadian McDonalds, you can feed 100 orphans in Swaziland:\n<\/p>\n

$5 = 100 meals of fortified rice and soup.
$25 = 500 meals.
$50 = 1000 meals.<\/p>\n

Didn’t think you had enough money for a child sponsorship programme?  Think again.  The good folks at Five for 50<\/a> make it easy to make a difference. While you’re thinking about it, TK <\/a>linked this great Time Magazine<\/a> photo essay, if you’d like to see what how this plays out around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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