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Oct. 15th, 2008 01:02 amToday is Blog Action Day 2008 and this year's topic is poverty, so I present to you a quick list of sites through which you can do something about world poverty, without spending any money or without even getting up out of your chair!
The Hunger Site - Click once a day to donate a cup of food. Be sure to check out their partner sites as well! (Secret: if I gave you a Christmas present last year, there's definitely a chance that I bought it from the Hunger Site store. x) )
Ripple - As with the Hunger Site, all you have to do is click!
FreeRice - Test your knowledge of English vocabulary; each time you answer correctly, twenty grains of rice are donated through the UN World Food Program. I definitely have played this game for hours instead of working on whatever schoolwork I was supposed to be working on at the time. :P (The More Rice Facebook application follows the same basic idea, only it poses math questions instead.)
GoodSearch - A search engine that donates every time you use it.
And here is Blog Action Day's official list of 88 Ways to Do Something About Poverty Right Now. I'm doing #3, #4 and #50ish, what about you? :D
Also, a small piece of YouTubey goodness: Sarah McLachlan - "World on Fire" - This is a very simple music video, because, as you'll see, they donated all of the money that they would have used making a more complex one. Amazing.
The Hunger Site - Click once a day to donate a cup of food. Be sure to check out their partner sites as well! (Secret: if I gave you a Christmas present last year, there's definitely a chance that I bought it from the Hunger Site store. x) )
Ripple - As with the Hunger Site, all you have to do is click!
FreeRice - Test your knowledge of English vocabulary; each time you answer correctly, twenty grains of rice are donated through the UN World Food Program. I definitely have played this game for hours instead of working on whatever schoolwork I was supposed to be working on at the time. :P (The More Rice Facebook application follows the same basic idea, only it poses math questions instead.)
GoodSearch - A search engine that donates every time you use it.
And here is Blog Action Day's official list of 88 Ways to Do Something About Poverty Right Now. I'm doing #3, #4 and #50ish, what about you? :D
Also, a small piece of YouTubey goodness: Sarah McLachlan - "World on Fire" - This is a very simple music video, because, as you'll see, they donated all of the money that they would have used making a more complex one. Amazing.