Free Rice

To provide everyone with free education and to end world hunger, these are the goals of Free Rice.

Visiting the website, you will immediately see that it is centred around a very basic word game. You are given a word, impetuous for example, then asked to select from 4 options the word that means the same thing (i.e. funny, scared, rash or rock).

Each time you answer a word correctly, the website donates 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme. They fund this through the adverts on the site, which refresh each time you get asked a question. The whole concept is rather ingenious and it is actually a really good education tool in itself.

I encourage everyone to find out more about Free Rice and check out the different subject categories they have as well.

Kiva.org

An interesting new take on charity, Kiva.org is a non-profit organisation allowing you to make loans to help impoverished people all around the world. These loans are exactly what they sound like, the amount of money you donate is the amount of money that you will be paid back, plus the warm fuzzy feeling that comes with helping people! XD

You can find out more about how it works here, along with the long and short explanations. In essence the whole set-up allows you to be charitable without having to spend money. Obviously it takes up a bit of your time and your money is tied up for the duration of the loan, but it is a small price really.

If you are still unconvinced, right now they are doing free trials which means that you can literally donate $25 for free! It takes less than two minutes and you can even set up your account to automatically lend out the money again once the loan is repaid.

Effortless charity at no cost to you whatsoever, what more could you want?