Generation Cures - An Inspirational and Fun Kid’s Site

Generation Cures is an educational, inspirational fun and FREE website. It was created by “Children’s Hospital Boston” and is like nothing I have ever seen! It has an online community created for tweens to educate kids about compassion and caring while raising money for pediatric medical research (by donation). It is the world’s first “caring-and-curing” site that aims to make sicks kids better and keep healthy kids well. There are so many positive things about this site the only hard part is WHERE to begin. The Children’s Hospital of Boston is already a global leader in pediatric research. I feel this now makes them a global leader in what a kid’s site and a hospital’s site can offer as well.

Here is how the site is broken down:

Zebrafish:

This is a series of animated online episodes that tell the story of children who…

Free Rice — Give Rice to The Hungry While Improving Your Vocabulary

Free Rice is an amazing site. It is a sister site to poverty.com which has a very important message about hunger in the world that follows:

“About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often. Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families. ”

“There are effective programs to break this spiral. For adults, there are “food…