Tin showed me Free Rice , a cool site that lets you play and help feed the poor at the same time. For each word you answered correctly, you get to donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations. I got 3,780 grains of rice. I would have wanted to get more rice if I didn't have to go to work early the next day. As of this writing, 254,840,800 grains of rice has been donated already.
"The United Nations estimates that the cost to end world hunger completely, along with diseases related to hunger and poverty, is about $195 billion a year. Twenty two countries have joined together to raise this money by each contributing 0.7% (less than 1%) of national income. Some of the countries have already met this goal. Others are being a little slow, but this can be fixed."
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