
Play vocabulary game to donate rice for the hungry children
This is pretty cool. It's a site with a vocabulary test. For each correct answer, they'll donate 10 grains of rice to a hungry person. Check it out here!
Code:
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
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got into lvl 12 while writing this... well at least i had donated
2100 grains of rice today
also this is the article that proves the donation
A refugee from Myanmar, currently sheltering in Bangladesh, sifts the first WFP rice ration to reach the developing world thanks to award-winning online vocabulary game FreeRice.FreeRice: from Italy to Bangladesh with a mouse click
Rome, 14 January 2008 - It’s a long way from the ancient city centre of Rome, Italy to Nayapara refugee camp on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
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It’s just an amazing concept that someone thousands of miles away can be at their computer ... a click of their mouse means that rice ends up here in Bangladesh.
WFP aid worker, Dhaka
But, thanks to the award-winning online vocabulary game FreeRice, Bangladesh, Myanmar and many other poverty-stricken countries, are just a click away for pupils of Rome's “Ambrit” international school, who want to help feed the world’s 854 million hungry people.
Each time a FreeRice player clicks on a correct word definition, 20 grains of rice are donated to the World Food Programme to combat world hunger. That might not sound like much but with millions of other people playing the game around the world, the overall total amounts to hundreds of metric tons of rice.
Continue reading here :
Code:
http://www.wfp.org/english/?ModuleID=137&Key=2740
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