Free Rice

This site is interesting: www.freerice.com. By participating in the vocabulary quiz with advertisements on each page, you raise money for the UN World Food Program a little bit at a time. The user wins by improving their vocabulary, the advertisers win by getting their ads seen, and the World Food Program gets support. By my calculations (assuming 20-30 milligrams per grain) they managed to donate around 1.3 to 1.9 tons of rice yesterday.

It took me very little time today to get up to 1500 grains, and it's good fun. The words actually get quite hard. My vocabulary level hovers around the low to mid forties.

Here's another interesting site. http://www.poverty.com/internationalaid.html