Help is just a click away

One of the funny little byproducts of the Internet is charity clicking - basically how it works is you go on to a charity site and click a button and this donates to the charity - the donation is given by advertisers to the site (so you also help the longevity of charity clicking by visiting these advertisers at least once in a while or otherwise they will decide it isn't worth the money).
I've known about this site -the hunger site - for years - it is the original charity click site since 1999. It has expanded and now also has affiliated sites for breast cancer literacy, child health, the rainforest and animal rescue.

There are now tonnes of them - so you now find sites that produce directories of them (and also enable you to bulk click - though again, this practice makes it even more likely that charity clicking will become unprofitable for advertisers, unless you do visit them occasionally as well).

I go through stages - sometimes I am a committed clicker, and at other times very infrequent - it does cost my time, and you have to weigh up your time constraints versus actual beneficial outcome - some sites seem to be more generous than others - more cash for your click if you like. Also, it can lead to a feeling of having done your bit just by clicking, when you should also put your hand in your own pocket!

Clicking is not very exciting though so a new site a friend had on her blog (2nd ref to this blog in 2 days!) is the answer to that (though way too addictive and definitely is catering to your pride, which may not be a good idea) - its called Free Rice, and you test your vocab and each word correct donates rice. And yes, this is boasting - I have managed so far to get to a rating of 47/50 (48/50 now)... see BBC news service for an article on this game.