Here's a wonderful example of the internet's ability to combine the mundane with the noble. Freerice.com is a sister site of Poverty.com with the twin aims of improving everyone's vocabulary and ending world hunger (in that order curiously enough).
It's completely free for the user and the main page basically gives you a word followed by four different meanings and you have to choose the correct one. Every time you get one right the site donates 20 grains of rice, via the UN, towards ending world hunger. It keeps track of your 'score' and the words get harder the better you do (and easier again if you start to get some wrong). The donations are funded by advertisers whose wares are touted along the bottom of the page. The next time you have 10mins to spare in front of a PC why not have a go at this rather than surfing around those irritating and self-important blog things (this one included)?
It's only been live for a couple of months but already 7.7bn grains of rice have been donated. I'm sure my modest readership won't increase that by any great order but if you all pass it on and then all your readers pass it on....
There are banner & buttons available here also...
It's completely free for the user and the main page basically gives you a word followed by four different meanings and you have to choose the correct one. Every time you get one right the site donates 20 grains of rice, via the UN, towards ending world hunger. It keeps track of your 'score' and the words get harder the better you do (and easier again if you start to get some wrong). The donations are funded by advertisers whose wares are touted along the bottom of the page. The next time you have 10mins to spare in front of a PC why not have a go at this rather than surfing around those irritating and self-important blog things (this one included)?
It's only been live for a couple of months but already 7.7bn grains of rice have been donated. I'm sure my modest readership won't increase that by any great order but if you all pass it on and then all your readers pass it on....
There are banner & buttons available here also...
3 Comments:
Thanks. I managed to donate 240 grains of rice. Very tricky. Some of the ones I got right, I didn't know the meaning of either word.
Thanks Colin - and yes, I was lucky on a few too!
What a strange thing.
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