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Free Rice
« on: June 16, 2008, 08:48:12 PM »
www.freerice.com

Play a game, feed people!


If you go to www.freerice.com and play the vocab game, for each question you get correct, rice will be donated to hungry people around the world.

Money is raised to purchase the rice through advertisements that the player sees after they get each question correct.

You get to play a game and feed people.... so do it!

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Re: Free Rice
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2008, 08:50:59 PM »
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Web site donates over 35 billion grains of rice
By: Josh Kurtz
Posted: 6/6/08

FreeRice.com, a web site launched as a way for the public to donate rice to underprivileged people around the world while improving vocabulary skills, has now reached approximately 35.5 billion grains of rice donated.

FreeRice donated over 537,163,380 grains of rice when it was launched in October 2007; in comparison, in May 2008, 4,657,641,260 grains of rice were donated, according to the organization's web site. The amount of rice donated for each correct answer has grown from 10 to 20 grains since the web site began.

"The reason that [FreeRice] took off as well as it did is because you can procrastinate while helping people," Jillian Gerraputa, a pre-junior majoring in architectural engineering, said. "It's definitely a cool concept."

Since the launch of FreeRice, web sites with similar philanthropic goals have started. According to the FreeRice Facebook group, a web site called FreeFlour.com will donate a spoonful of flour for every trivia question answered correctly. In addition, savetheworldwithmusic.com will donate clean water to one person for a day every time a music trivia question is answered correctly.

Apart from the web, FreeRice's influence has been felt on the Drexel campus.

In March 2008, the Drexel Networking Association held a FreeRice event in the Korman Center. In addition to the rice raised through FreeRice, some of the members of the fraternity donated money to Philabundance, the region's largest hunger-relief organization, according to their web site.

"We tried to make an impact on hunger both locally and globally," Gerraputa, the head of the Drexel Networking Association's philanthropy committee, said.

DNA got the idea for the event because some of their members enjoyed playing FreeRice, according to Gerraputa.

Gerraputa said the rainy weather on the day of the previous event lowered student attendance, but she is optimistic that future events will draw a larger turnout. She said DNA is discussing the possibility of holding a future event in the quad.

During FreeRice's first day on the web, 830 grains of rice were donated, according to The Washington Post. Eight days later, a total of 6,403,920 grains had been donated.

Rice earned through FreeRice is given to the United Nations' World Food Program. The money for the rice comes from a sponsor who advertises on each page. Since the FreeRice web site does not make a profit, the money from the advertisers goes towards purchasing rice, according to the FreeRice frequently asked questions page.

Users can also pay to donate rice through a separate link on the web site.

Users can donate rice by choosing the correct synonym or brief definition of a given word from a list of four choices. Based on their proficiency, users will be moved up or down to different word difficulty levels.

For instance, a sample level-40 word is "bailey," and the site gives the possible definitions "informer," "hurt," "leaning" and "castle wall." If the user chooses the correct definition, which in this case is "castle wall," 20 grains of rice will be donated.

FreeRice was started by John Breen, a computer programmer, according to the Washington Post. Breen chose to make the site a test of vocabulary after watching his son study for the SATs.

FreeRice is a sister web site of Poverty.com, which teaches people about world hunger.

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Re: Free Rice
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2008, 06:22:14 AM »
Another great charity site is AIDtoCHILDREN.com. It donates money to children in need through World Vision.

Check it out at http://www.aidtochildren.com

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Re: Free Rice
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2008, 03:11:32 PM »
Another great charity site is AIDtoCHILDREN.com. It donates money to children in need through World Vision.

Check it out at http://www.aidtochildren.com

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Re: Free Rice
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2008, 03:31:35 PM »
Very noble cause, thanks for showing it to us.  I will get my game on.
N-D-S-U ... Goooooo Bison!

 

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