CARE: "Saving lives, building opportunity, bringing hope. Forging a brighter future for people in need." Those are pretty noble aims but CARE, founded in the wake of WWII to help war victims in Europe and Asia, is in a position to pursue them, being one of the world's biggest and best-organized private relief and development bodies. The US organization has been reaching out to people in need of humanitarian aid around the world for over 50 years, going right down to family and community levels to give life-saving support. CARE's fast-loading home page gives you an idea of the various kinds of humanitarian programs it undertakes. There're also updates on the latest projects and profiles on countries which could use your help and care. Such features as 'CARE Marketplace', 'CARE Bookstore' and 'Shop with CARE' may bother those who're skeptical of any site that tries to sell something, but you can rest assured that whatever money you're spending here is going to a good cause. Of course, if you feel like just giving, all you have to do is just click on the relevant link.

Care 2 Make A Difference: Here's a search portal with a green twist, and a refreshingly non-commercial approach that makes Yahoo! look repulsively rapacious. Offering "free services that help save wildlife" -- the site sponsors pledge a donation to non-profit environmental organizations everytime a surfer signs up -- Care 2 is a pretty comprehensive vehicle, with a category-specific search box, the latest news headlines, US stock quotes and links to various evironmentally-conscious commercial sites. The search facility may not often give you exactly what you're looking for the way Google (www.google.com), currently the best search engine on the Web, does, but at least you don't have to wait around for ages like you'd have to using some of the big-name search sites. Anyway, the fact that by being a member, you're doing something to save the fast-vanishing wildlife around the world should be reason enough to sign up.

The Hunger Site Home: 'Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger; 3/4 of the deaths are children under 5. When a country dims on this map, it signifies a death from hunger in that country. Click on this button to make a free donation of food to hungry people around the world. Our sponsors pay for your donation, which you can make once every day.' Yes, believe it or not, by just visiting this site every day and clicking on the 'Donate Free Food' button, you'll be making sure that some starving child gets a serving of rice, wheat, maize or another food staple, paid for by corporate sponsors. The site, which was launched on June 1, is the brainchild of Indiana software programmer John Breen whose example deserves to be emulated by anyone with a Web site. Just think how wonderful the world would be if we all could do something like this for the less fortunate... The home page is simply laid out but offers you neat links to all the information you need about how the whole thing works. And in case you're wondering how genuine the "click to make a donation" claim is, you might like to know that a leading charity-fraud investigator has checked it out and given it a clean bill. So, be a kindly soul and bookmark the page to do your daily bit for the world's starving, or just configure your browser to open with it if you're lazy.

Gamers.com: If computer games are your thing, this is the place to go to find out what's new and what's hot, or just hang out. Besides offering snappy reviews of games, Gamers.com also serves as a portal and meeting place for those whose idea of a great date is a joystick. There're links to the most active gamers' chats, news about the latest electronic toys and tools, charts for Top PC Games, Top Console Games and Top Web Games, and even free e-mail accounts and home pages. So plenty of ground is covered here. The site has a neat eye-pleasing design and loads fast so game boyz and gals will find it a joy to visit again and again.

Rapstation.com: Rapper Chuck D is the motivating force behind this provocative rap resource that aims to galvanize the music's growing multi-racial community. It offers plenty of stimulating features, including pull-no-punches pieces on such controversial subjects as "radio payola/crayola" and the record industry's unfair business practices, interviews with the the music's most serious-minded practitioners, the latest developments in the hip-hop world and plenty of audio and video clips. Much thought has been put into the design which has a classy feel about it. There's a search box and an artist index to help you find something specific within the site. It's all quite neat and surfer-friendly. You can also get the latest MP3 download here.

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