Perry Belcher

How would you like if you are given a chance to help those in need by using your wits to play online? It sounds so much fun, right? Well, that’s what the following creative charities are doing. Each time you answer a question correctly, the charity site administrator and sponsors will donate the corresponding amount of money or food supply to multiple charities. These are the creative and innovative charities that positively exploit the power of cyberspace to reach out to those in need.

http://www.freeflour.com

Here’s the instruction: “Answer one question correctly and we donate one spoon of flour to help world hunger.”

That basically it is. Each correct answer is equivalent to a certain amount of money that can buy a spoonful of flour. This cash donation from this charity site will be then used to buy food for hungry populace.

The more that you play and the more that you visit the site, the higher the level of difficulty of the questions. In case you get it wrong, there’s nothing to worry. Your collected points won’t be deducted. The good thing about this site is that you entertain yourself and broaden your knowledge about the world while at the same time you are helping others to fill their stomach full with nutritious food. Isn’t it great?

You can also help this site by spreading the word. Let your friends know about this site through your online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Instant Messenger or by sending it to your mailing list. You can also write about it in your blog, which I am doing now. All of these efforts may seem to be so small and insignificant. But if many of us do this, it all becomes a global effort that is huge enough to make a big difference.

http://www.care2.com/click-to-donate/oceans/

Actually, care2.com was created in 1998 to help make the world a better place. Its idea is very simple. It aims to make it easy for anyone to live a healthy, green lifestyle and impact the causes they care about most. Since then, the site grew out and employed more than 50 individuals. It also has 11 million members and in continuous partnership with about 400 nonprofit partners and hundreds of responsible advertisers.

One of the site’s programs is the click-to-donate. And one of its goals is to save the world’s ocean from total depletion of food sources and to help it restore its grandeur. How does this work? Basically, it’s simple. Any visitor can check out the site and click on advertisement banners.

Every click generates money that can be used for this purpose. It’s actually dual purpose. You are promoting the site’s advertisers that also strive to make a difference for common good. And at the same time, you are spending your time and effort to save our slowly dying ocean.

http://www.freerice.com/

This site is more like the freeflour.com. The freerice.com is a nonprofit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. For this project, UN is working in partnership with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

FreeRice.com was created for two main goals. One reason is to provide education to everyone at no cost, and the second is to help end the world hunger by providing free rice to hungry citizens. And all is made possible through the generosity of the site’s sponsors that continue to advertise on this charity website.

So, regardless if you are just a lowly internet user, an ordinary student, or a big-time CEO of a well established company, you can improve your life and others by constant effort to educate one’s self. This is probably one of the greatest investment that you can spend your time and energy to, and the utmost legacy you can bequeath to your descendants in years to come.

But it is perhaps even greater to invest your donated rice to feed hungry citizens. This will surely enable them to function properly and become more productive. And who knows, one of them might become a great leader someday because he or she survived with the donations you give.