What is Rectifi? How does it work?
Rectifi is a search engine with a difference. Not only do we strive to offer you relevant results and to help you find what you are looking for, we also hope to share ideas with you on how you personally can take simple steps to reduce pollution in your life, and help the lives of those in the developing world.
Yet it's not just about education. Just like Yahoo, Google and others we display Sponsored Results within our listings - advertisers who have paid to be at the top of the list. Each time you visit one of our advertisers we receive money - yet unlike most other search engines we donate 92% of our advertising revenue to charity meaning you could be raising money for those in the developing world every time you search the internet
Why Rectifi?
We live in a world where 30,000 people die unnecessarily from abject poverty each and every day, and over 50% of the worlds survive on less than $2 a day. There is a desperate need for change, and we hope to begin to rectify the situation through fundraising for development charities and campaigning for trade justice, an end to third world debt and more official aid for developing countries.
At rectifi we believe that there is a strong public will to prevent climate change and to help those in the developing world sustain themselves, but when faced with the scale of the problems we realise it is easy to believe there is little one can do as an individual..
Yet we don't think it's true. With your help we hope to highlight simple steps we can all take at home that when done collectively can have a massive impact on these issues and on the decisions our leaders make.
How do we know the charities will get their money?
Rectifi has been set up by the same UK student who created GiveAsYouGet, a price comparison service for the UK that donates the commissions it receives from featured shops to charity. Since its launch in 2003 it has raised thousands for charities covering areas such as homelessness, development, the environment and HIV/AIDS. Now we wish to offer the ability to raise money for charity at no cost to yourselves to an international audience, and without users having to consume to contribute.
As the money we raise is donated we will post details of the totals collected.
We hope that over the coming year we will also be able to offer 'charity shops' in other countries throughout Europe and the world.
Fantastic - how can I help?
There are plenty of ways you can help us raise more funds and awareness for causes worldwide - by contributing your own tips on helping the poor and stopping climate change, or by telling your friends about Rectifi and encouraging them to use it too.
To help you help us raise as much money as possible, we also offer a toolbar that not only makes it easy to search Rectifi or one of our charity shops where ever you are on the web, but blocks irritating popup ads making browsing an altogether more pleasant experience!
If you own your own website, email list or blog we'd love you to spread the word to your readers, and on every page you will see a "Link to us" option so you can point directly to the area your users will find most relevant.
