It sounds slow, 20 grains of rice at a time, but since October 7, 2007,
FreeRice has raised over 20,000,000,000 grains of rice (yep, that's over 20 billions grains).
Why am I telling you this on my writing blog (apart from the fact that it is a good cause)? Because to raise the grains you go to their web site and play a simply vocabulary game. You can boost your word knowledge AND help the hungry. It works by having embedded advertising on the site. Each time you play, the advertiser donates 20 grains (and each word you guess is one play). So far I've raised 1340 grains of rice for a few minutes of interest and fun between work.
Oh, and they are part of
Poverty.com so--Check it out!
On a related note, I'm rather disgusted at Canada. According to Poverty.com,
22 countries have pledged to raise the necessary $195 billion/yr necessary to wipe out almost all deaths from hunger and treatable disease in the 3rd world. Canada is one of those countries and yet, to date, not only are we one of the lowest donors, with only 30cents/$100 earned in the country going toward foreign aid, but we have yet to set a date as to when our pledged contribution will be met. Some countries (mostly the Scandinavian ones) have already met their pledged contributions! Come on Canada, what's your problem?
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