Helping Hearts, Blog of Anne Sanders

I’ve told you before about games you can play to raise money for charity , but now I have a game that you can watch others play to raise money for kids dealing with serious illnesses.  The game is called Desert Bus for Hope and is known unofficially as the worst video game ever. It comes from a never released CD called Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors. The driver of a listing, unreliable, virtual bus must go on an endless, eight-hour-long strip of highway between Tucson, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The game has no pause button and plays in real time so in order to win, you actually have to steer the bus for eight straight hours. You get one point for reaching Las Vegas and can turn around and go back for another point.  A waste of eight hours, right? Right, unless you are getting paid to play the game and that money goes to Child’s Play. Child’s Play is a charity that improves the lives of children undergoing treatment in the hospital with toys and gam...

Happy February! Today I want to share an easy way to help others that you don’t even have to get out of your chair at home to do.   It’s called playing for a cause. That’s right.   You can play your favorite games on your computer while money is given to a charity of your choice. One of the best sites for this is gamesthatgive .   It offers 28 games to play for a variety of charities.   While you play there are advertisers, usually only one at the top of the game, who pay the charity for you, up to ten cents per minute you play. If you’re on Facebook, you can log in and play there and invite other friends to play as well.   I’ve also mentioned Freerice before. I love this game because it’s like Jeopardy for a good cause. You choose what you want to learn or review, be it geography, sciences, English, humanities, math or languages. You then answer questions on the topic and for every answer you get right, ten grains of rice go to someone who’s hungry....