Free Rice

I just discovered the Free Rice site on a friend's  Facebook page.  It's a vocabulary quiz with a purpose--for every word you guess correctly, Free Rice donates 1o grains of rice through the UN.

Or at least they say they do; there's no way to check.

The site is fun if nothing else. I figure that the worst that happens is that "contestants" learn some new words. And if hungry people really get food because of someone's intellectual prowess, that's all the better.  But we should guard against the tendency to opt for "easy charity" in all cases; making transformative changes in the world will never be easy.

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[Helen]

There are people who do checking as a profession.

http://www.enn.com/health/article/24371