Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Feed the Hungry -- For Free!
AUGUSTA, GA. - Usually when you donate to a worthy cause, all you get is that warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Now you can provide rice for starving people and build an impressive vocabulary while you're at it – all without paying a dime.
At FreeRice.com, all it takes to donate rice to hungry families is a good grasp of the English language. The site gives you a word followed by four possible definitions. Match the word with its meaning and Free Rice will donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations World Food Program. Wrong or right, you can play as long as you like, so you're helping yourself and the world!
Since launching the site in October 2007, FreeRice.com has donated over 15,586,120,730 grains of rice. How is it possible? FreeRice uses all of the advertising money they generate from ads placed on their site to buy the rice and runs their site at no profit.
So why not help out some hungry families while feeding your brain? Whoever you're doing it for, you're making a difference.
it seems like if they've got the rice, they should just go ahead and donate it already, without making people jump through websterian (yeah i made it up) hoops. i mean, i'm all for helping people and expanding my vocabulary, but this smacks of "answer correctly and we won't kill the puppy".
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