KE7HQY
11-13-2007, 07:16 PM
Freerice.com (http://www.freerice.com) is a charity site that donates grains of rice to fight hunger for correct answers to a word game. Its a synonym-guessing game, and yes, it actually does donate the money to fight hunger, through the UN World Food Program:
http://www.wfp.org/how_to_....ction=5 (http://www.wfp.org/how_to_help/Ways_to_Donate/freerice.asp?section=4&sub_section=5)
It's so far donated over a billion grains of rice: http://www.freerice.com/totals.html
Assuming 29,000 grains of rice per pound (http://www.producersrice.com/rice/facts.html)this is roughly 25 TONS of rice in the past month! They're currently doing over a hundred million grains a day, or over a ton/day.
If you love word games, give this a try and help out at the same time!
http://www.wfp.org/how_to_....ction=5 (http://www.wfp.org/how_to_help/Ways_to_Donate/freerice.asp?section=4&sub_section=5)
It's so far donated over a billion grains of rice: http://www.freerice.com/totals.html
Assuming 29,000 grains of rice per pound (http://www.producersrice.com/rice/facts.html)this is roughly 25 TONS of rice in the past month! They're currently doing over a hundred million grains a day, or over a ton/day.
If you love word games, give this a try and help out at the same time!