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Two friends of The Daily Can-Do---Tom from Wisconsin and Sue from Honduras--have suggested simple ways that you can contribute to eradicating world hunger and rescuing animals respectively. Both means are right at your fingertips.
Some time ago, Tom commended www.freerice.org. Go to this site and you'll find a multiple choice vocabulary test that quickly adapts to your skill level. Based on whether you get the previous question right or wrong, the next question is either easier or harder. For each answer you get right, the non-profit donates 10 grains of rice through the UN World Hunger Program. It adds up. Yesterday visitors to the site helped contribute over 67 million grains of rice. To date the total is over 58 billion! In addition to helping ease world hunger, this is a great way to improve your vocabulary...and a most palatable way to get your kids to work on their vocabulary skills.
Sue directed us to www.theanimalrescuesite.com. Here, there is no test. According to the site:
"The Animal Rescue Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need — providing food for some of the 27 million unwanted animals given to shelters in the U.S. every year. Over 10 million animals are put to death every year in the U.S. alone because they are abandoned and unwanted.
"Each click on the purple 'Click Here to Give - it's FREE' button provides food and care for a rescued animal living in a shelter or sanctuary. Funding for food and care is paid by site sponsors and distributed to animals in need at the Fund for Animals' renowned animal sanctuaries....100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners."
Thanks Tom and Sue, these ways of using the computer to deal with big problems sure beat Solitaire.