Freerice.com is a vocabulary building site that fights world hunger. It's one of the best things on the web. If you love words, if you love humans, if you have ten minutes and are looking for something to pass the time, this is a great site.
The creators of the site arrange for rice to be purchased with the money paid for adspace on the main page. Players earn 'rice' each time they guess the correct definition for a word. Words become increasingly more difficult as you play.
If you look around the site, you'll find a page that show the total amount of rice they have donated by date. First, be amazed that people playing a word game have helped distribute more than 14 billion grains of rice in about 10 months. But then, notice that donations have dropped since last December. I imagine that there has not been a great publicity push for the site since then. So this post is my little publicity push for them; and if you like the site, maybe you'll push a little, too.
1 comment:
Karen,
I love this game! It was so fun I donated 1000 grains of rice at 4 o'clock this morning. And here I scoff at computer games...
Thanks for the info and your cheery blog. We hope you, your family and poetry are peachy. :)
Fondly,
Traci
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