This is a site run by the United Nations, designed to increase your vocabulary and feed poor people at the same time.
It’s essentially a semifun (in the manner of school disguised as entertainment) game wherein a word and four possible definitions show up on your screen. You click on the one you think is correct. If you’re right, the FreeRice people donate 20 grains of rice to starving people. If you’re wrong, you try again, or stop playing and curse at your computer. Your choice.
Yesterday 110,091,680 grains of rice were sent to poor people around the world.
Check it out: FreeRice
Now, what I want to know is, who gets to count the grains? And if starving people complain about meager portions, do the volunteers say, “Well, I’m sorry, but Matthew Johnson has a really bad vocabulary.”
On another charity-related note, because I saw a poster at church this morning and it just happened to pop into my head, the Souper Bowl of Caring is coming up, so donate your soup cans!
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