Free Rice! My charity site of the month

A big thanks to the effervescent Mike on our helpdesk for the link to this great site:
www.freerice.com

In its own words, the goal of the site is twofold:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free

Sounds pretty reasonable to me. It's the sister site of www.poverty.com and is basically a word game: you're given a word and have to choose the right meaning, and for every word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations World Food Programme to help fight hunger.

How? Well, companies pay to advertise on the site and that money goes to help fight hunger. Clever, huh!

And from a measly 830 grains donated on the first day (the 7th October) it has *raised* a total of 195,074,730 grains as of yesterday.

I must admit to being mildly addicted: it gives me the chance to be, er, simultaneously voraciously verbose and phenomenally philanthropic...

But what makes it so addictive is that the difficulty of the words is automatically adjusted based on your answers, so you're continually playing at your own level: I got up to vocab level 42, what's yours? (Mike got to level 48, so that's put me in my place!)

Have a look at their FAQ for more info.

Comments

[Evangelist Massingale]

Amazing!