Social Justice Tuesday: Rock Your Vocabulary, Defeat Hunger

This week someone forwarded me a link to a website called Free Rice where you take a little vocabulary quiz, and for every question you get right ten grains of rice will be donated to the World Food Programme, which is run by the UN. You get to strengthen your vocabulary (today I learned that a shellback is an old or experienced sailor) and give food to hungry people. Plus, the WFP is dedicated to making sure hungry people can become self-reliant, and end the cycle of poverty. Hard to argue with this, right? Play as often as you like at FreeRice.com. If you want to do more (and trust me, these vocab questions won’t leave you too spent) add your name to the One Campaign where several million people have already joined together “as One” to end hunger and extreme poverty. If enough people join, dreams for a better world can be made into reality very quickly. Also, twenty-two countries have joined together to raise this money by each contributing 0.7% (less than 1%) of national income. Some of the countries have already met this goal. Others are being a little slow, but this can be fixed. You can see how the countries are doing here. You can print a letter to support your country’s participation here. Is anyone else hungry for sushi?