Blog Action Day: Play the Free Rice Game & Feed a Hungry Person

As you can see by the banner, today is Blog Action Day, and this year, the topic of discussion is Poverty.

For a week or so now, I’ve been tossing around ideas as to how I could participate in this call to action in the blogging world. To be honest, I’d see this on my To Do List, and I’d sigh and then move on to something else. Poverty isn’t a happy subject. This coupled with the uncertainty in the market right now created thoughts I didn’t want to face…I mean, I don’t have any answers. I don’t want to focus on the negatives. I want to use my energy for other things.

But, I said I’d participate, and I’m a writer of my word (Totally accidental pun alert…ha!), so I sat down last night and decided to type “poverty” into Google and see what came up. Google always has the answers. Always. Surely something would catch my eye and I’d be able to take this whole fighting poverty issue in a positive direction.

It only took about 10 seconds for my brain to start clicking. I caught images and flickers of words here and there. Poverty. Hunger. Feed the hungry.

And, at that instant I knew what I would write. I knew how to focus on the positive and still address something negative.

Play the Free Rice Game to the rescue! Why hadn’t I thought of this before??

I showcased this game almost a year ago. For a while, I was totally hooked on this fun and challenging game.  Eventually, my interest waned.  I’d play it every now and then, but to be honest, it eventually slipped my mind, and I’d forgotten all about it. I’d said I would try to add a link to it on the sidebar of my blog, but I’d never gotten around to it.

Well, it’s there now, and it looks like this:

If you’re interested in adding this to your own blog, go to this link to check out the different banners.

Poverty and all the issues that stem from it are very real and affect all of us, in one way or another. Playing this game is an ingenious way to work toward a solution. It’s fun. It’s easy. It’s really working.

So, if you haven’t done so, check it out! Or, if you used to play but have stopped, go back! Play a round or two. Or, if you already play, great! Every little bit helps, and we’re all in this together.

Now, I’m off to try to beat my score and feed a hungry person in the process. Wanna join me?