Help End World Hunger (While Increasing Your Vocab)

Hi gals!
Check out this cool website I found the other day. www.freerice.com
You can brainstorm your vocabulary and help end the world hunger. Sounds absurd?
Here is how it works. For every correct answer, you donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nation World Food Program. The more you got correct answer the more rice you donate to help people in hunger.

You may think 10 grains is a piddling amount. But the totals have grown exponentially. On Oct. 7, the day the site launched, 830 grains of rice were donated. Barely a bowlful. As of November 09, '07, the total has grown to 1,072,025,720, approx. 26,800 metric tones.

The site is the brainchild of John Breen, a 50-year-old computer programmer from Bloomington, Ind., who has tackled hunger online before, first with the Hunger Site and, earlier this year, with the launch of Poverty.com, a poverty awareness site that he hopes people will visit to learn about helping to get more funding for international poverty relief.

"I wanted to have something fun to do that wasn't just a waste of time and had some vaguely redeeming value," Breen says with a laugh. He decided on the vocabulary quiz — and entered all 10,000 words and definitions himself — after watching his son preparing for the SAT.

"It's hard to get people to read about hunger and poverty," Breen says. "It's kind of depressing, so I had to think of an entertaining way to draw people in. Hopefully, they'll also click on to Poverty.com and find out what needs to be done."

So? Let's play, have some fun while helping our brothers and sisters in hunger.