FreeRice: Feed The Poor With Your Vocabulary
Today I stumbled across a wonderful Web site which I think everyone should visit and donate at least 5 to 10 minutes of their time. The site is called FreeRice, and in a nutshell it donates grains of rice for every vocabulary word you get right.
Rice is earned 10 grains at a time, for each word that you guess right. The rice is then given to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), who in turn distributes it to over 1,000 organizations in 75 countries. Rice is paid for by various site advertisers, such as American Express, Office Depot, Liz Claiborne and many more.
The site launched a little over a month ago on October 7th (best day of the year 
) and has at the time of this writing raised 1,072,025,720 grains of rice for the hungry.
I strongly encourage everyone to head over to freerice.com and play for a few minutes. In addition to allowing some people to fill their stomachs, you might just learn something. 
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
Erika Strum
So fun! I got up to level 33 and donated 580 grains. What’d you get? I particularly liked that “schlep” was in there.
Nov 11th, 2007
John Bennet
Another great charity site is AIDtoCHILDREN.com. It donates money to
children in need through World Vision.
AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a dual-purpose site for building an English
vocabulary and raising money for under privileged children in the most
impoverished places around the world.
Check it out at http://www.aidtochildren.com
Apr 20th, 2008
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