Save Starving Children in Haiti with Farmville on Facebook

Children in Haiti are starving and Zynga Games, makers of FarmVille for Facebook, want you to help do something about it.

Try the new Sweet Seeds for Haiti charity event on FarmVille. The simple new addition to the Farmville market allows players to make a donation to help feed children in Haiti. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and children there are often subsisting on a starvation diet.

So, how can you help? Donate your FarmVille dollars to the cause!

By donating as little as 25 FarmVille dollars, you the player get access to sweet potatoes seeds to plant on your farm. The seeds are a sweet little benefit to anyone who plays the game. They cost just 10 coins per plot to plants, a bargain comparable to strawberries, but they yield 125 coins per plot in just one day.

Too busy to plant a new crop every day?  Don’t worry, the added benefit of the sweet potatoes is that they never wilt. Oh, and you get 3 experience points every time you plant a plot of Sweet Seeds for Haiti on FarmVille.

The downside? Well, it’s that your donation has to come in form of FarmVille dollars. Since the dollars are hard to come by naturally in the game, you may want to take advantage of Zynga Games offer to let you buy Farmville dollars at the bargain rate of $5 real money for 25 FarmVille dollars. That means to get access to the Sweet Seeds for Haiti for one week of game time, you must donate the equivalent of $5.

People who are interested in purchasing more FarmVille dollars will find that the ratio of Farmville dollars per real dollar goes up the more you spend.

Half the money donated via Sweet Seeds for Haiti goes directly to the charity supporting Haitian children while half remains with Zynga Games to support the work it needed to do to add a new crop, a special prize and more for the charity event.

Like many other games on the internet, there is also the option to fill out special offers to earn extra FarmVille dollars to sue with the Sweet Seeds for Haiti event or to increase your ability to buy fuel refills or other special items on the game, but these special offers almost always come with a price: either you email address to open you up to tons of spam or worse, so buying FarmVille dollars directly via credit card or Paypal is probably the best way to buy into the charity event and protect yourself.