Free Rice
Posted: Tue 13 November, 2007 Filed under: Green, Health, News Leave a comment »
(via Blue Witch)
The FreeRice website has recently started as a spin-off from Poverty.com, and as of the time of writing has already donated some 1,330,639,890 grains of rice to be distributed through the United Nations’ World Food Programme. Read the FAQs for more information
FreeRice has two goals:
- Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
- Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.
Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.
Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. Thank you.
Yes, it’s advertising-sponsored, but it’s not intrusive and hell, it’s what pays for the rice.
My average literacy level so far is 40-42, (mainly because I had occasional moments of twonkdom) which is apparently pretty good. Still, it’s fun, and it’s for a decent cause, so go on, participate, have a bit of bobble-hatted fun, and do some donation of rice via the UN. You know you want to.