November 29th, 2007

Free Rice

Posted by Alex Payson at 9:55 am

It doesn’t get much better than this.

Yesterday I heard about a website with two goals. Improving the reader’s vocabulary, and ending world hunger (and it is also a game!)
Check out www.freerice.com to play. All you have to do is answer vocabulary questions, and for each word you correctly define, 20 grains of rice will be donated through the United Nations World Food Program. Each donation is funded by a banner advertisement which appears as at the bottom of the page.

20 grains doesn’t sound like that much right? Enter the power of the internet where lots and lots and lots of people can come and play. The website is only 7 weeks old, and yesterday alone 369 million grains of rice were donated.

I love it.

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