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Meditation can be a very beneficial practice even if you do it for just two minutes a day. Now you can help end world hunger while you meditate, through the Satorio website.

The webapp is a simple online timer. You can set a time between 2 and 100 minutes for your meditation session. When you click start, a bell will chime, and when time’s up it chimes again to bring you back into non-meditating mode.

Satorio’s creators donate 10 grains of rice to a starving person through Oxfam for every minute you meditate with the timer. 10 grams of rice doesn’t sound like a lot, but it all adds up. 1,920 minutes (32 hours) of meditation between everyone who uses the site could feed a person for a day.

The site’s creators say that profits from their guided meditations and other products, such as a mindfulness journal, help pay for the rice donations.

You can use the timer without creating an account and it’s a simple tool that can come in useful anyway, so why not also use it for a good cause.

(From Lifehacker, “Satorio Is a Free Online Meditation Timer That Donates Food for Every Minute You Meditate“)

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