Free Rice - play and help the starving - on FreeRice.com
FreeRice is a charity website where users play a vocabulary game in order to raise money to fight world hunger. ------------------------------------- "What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does . . . the totals have grown exponentially." - Washington Post "Addictive, yes. But . . . each correct answer results in the donation of rice to help feed the hungry around the globe. Perhaps that qualifies the game as a good addiction . . . one with redeeming qualities, something that's, oh, didactic and edifying." - Kansas City Star "People from all walks of life and from around the globe have written in to express their appreciation for the game . . . Secretaries admit to playing it during boring business meetings." - Christian Science Monitor "FreeRice.com is one of the most ingenious websites of 2007. In the best spirit of the Internet, it offers education, entertainment and a way to change the world ― all for free." - Los Angeles Times "Web game provides rice for hungry . . . FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1 billion grains of rice [by November 9]." - BBC News "Freerice.com is an international, viral sensation. Folks from Thailand to Germany and India are just as enthusiastic . . . improving thousands of lives, all with a simple, collective, click of a mouse." - CBS Evening News "Every grain of rice is essential in the fight against hunger . . . FreeRice really hits home how the Web can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for the world's number one emergency." - UN World Food Program "A teacher of fourth and fifth graders on the Yurok Indian reservation in Klamath, CA, . . . emailed the WFP. 'My students absolutely LOVE the FreeRice site. Almost daily they earn several thousand grains of rice!' she wrote. 'You cannot imagine the joy in my heart when I look out and see 25 kids doing vocabulary work and enjoying it.'" - School Library Journal "Feeling guilty about wasting time on computer solitaire? Join the growing guilt-free multitude at FreeRice.com, an online game with redeeming social value." - USA Today "The Web site offers a greater gift, the gift of awareness about world hunger." - NPR National Public Radio "What type of computer game could get kids excited about learning vocabulary words? One that also helps feed hungry people around the world!" - Scholastic News Magazine "'It's fantastic,' says the World Food Program's Bangladesh director. Adds a 32-year-old widow living in a refugee camp with her 8-year-old daughter, 'I depend on the rice.'" - People Magazine "FreeRice is a triumph of converting passivity into engagement." - New York Times Magazine "A simple way to bring kids to the Internet for a good reason, a way to feed their minds and . . . to feed a whole lot of people . . . helping fight world hunger, one grain of rice at a time. " - NBC Evening News
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get disliked lol
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This idea if fantastic! Thank you Miss Pickle, there is no excuse for any human to be without the basics of food, water and shelter. At the same time teach those in need about ways to help themselves too. Wonderful to see!
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100,020
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I donated 15,220
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I donated 2,040
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HELP THE AFWICENS
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20 is only 10
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Donated 4070
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Where would you get the freaking resources to build those tools?
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No we donate now 10 grains of rice
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love this web site! I've been doing 2400 grains a day for the past few months!
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i say the estimate it by weight.
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i love it!~
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i play this everyday to donate rice
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true, but rice can be fortified with some Vitamin A and B. Not sure if freerice uses this fortified rice. Either way, malnutrition is better than famine.
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you cant survive from just eating rice why don't they donate something that has some nutrition
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Where's the site: freethreecoursemeal . com?
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So do they actually count out the specific number of rice grains or what? Its not that easy to give exactly 4,450 grains of rice on the dot :P Still though, great concept! I love it ^^
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Only way to solve these problems is to SHARE by sharing we create justice and therefore Peace.
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@777palena to send food to a population which has become too large for its landbase to support INSURES that there will be More starving people the following year. perpetuating famine, rather than addressing the problem, seems more like a "bad karma-builder" than doing absolutely nothing. (to me, anyway)
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