A great web site that helps the kid learn and donate RICE to countries that need it, all at the same time!
An Internet game in which a website named FreeRice.com – founded by the United States fundraising pioneer John Breen – donates 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme for every vocabulary question answered correctly by participants has passed the one (1) billion grain threshold after just one month of operations; that is enough to feed more than 50,000 people for one day.
World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Josette Sheeran hailed the FreeRice game as an example of how the Internet can mobilize millions of people worldwide to end want.She added that “every grain of rice is essential in the fight against hunger,” noting that hunger claims more lives than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
FreeRice relies on payments from companies that place advertisements on the site to underwrite its donations to WFP, the world’s largest humanitarian agency. On October 7, the first day of the site’s operations, only 830 grains were donated. But with the help of bloggers and social networking sites such as YouTube and Facebook, the numbers have grown exponentially, and yesterday more than 77 million grains – or the equivalent of seven million clicks – were donated.
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