freeRice.com - Save a person dying of Hunger

FreeRice has two goals:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
2. 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.

Playing a word definition game at FreeRice.com results in food being donated to the needy. you can “donate” 20 grains of rice to the needy simply by choosing the right answer to a word definition problem. Each correct answer results in another donation of 20 grain of rice.

FreeRice.com is the creation of 49-year-old American computer programmer John Breen, and is the sister site of Poverty.com, launched in January 2007 with a counter showing one person dying of hunger every 3.5 seconds.  Breen is no stranger to such programs, having created  The Hunger Site in June 1999.

As to who foots the bill for the food being donated, the site says: “The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen.” As more people play the game, the site racks up more advertising revenue, which in turn is converted into food donations for the hungry.

The rice is distributed by the United Nations’ World Food Programme, an organization that in 2006 reached 87.8 million people in 78 countries.

So play as much as on the site and learn vocabulary for your personal development and meanwhile you witness to save a person in the world dying of hunger. Its great combination for helping the people and learning yourself.

Keep visiting freerice.com

….. Jignesh Dodiya