Free Rice

Today, I stumbled upon this website called "Free Rice" at www.freerice.com where you can play various educational, multiple-choice games in order to raise money to fight world hunger. I read many reviews online about this, as it didn't seem possible?!?  It is, in fact, a legit site and there were many positive reviews about it. The games include English vocabulary, multiplication tables, pre-algebra, chemistry, English grammar, basic foreign language vocabulary, geography and art.

In exchange for advertisements on the website, various sponsors donate the money to pay for the rice and other costs to run FreeRice. The donations are distributed by the United Nations's World Food Programme. The most common countries to transport rice to are Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bhutan, Uganda, and Nepal. In its first six months of operation, FreeRice donated over 42 billion grains of 

rice. One month after the inception of the viral marketing program, users had earned enough points for one billion grains of rice. The United Nation's World Food Programme stated that this amount could feed 50,000 people for one day. Approximately 20,000 grains of rice provide enough caloric intake to sustain an adult for one day. Using this calculation, enough rice is donated to feed about 7,000 people daily. Since its inception, as of January 23, 2010, FreeRice has donated over 74 billion grains of rice!!!!! (wikipedia information) 

Isn't this amazing?? It all started with a father, coming up with a program for his son to study his SAT's. --- One man really can change the world.

I brought my laptop to work, and shared this new game with the kids in my program. About half of them had already heard of it, and have done it in their classroooms, but there were many that hadn't heard of it and were very interested. Here's a little video of them donating rice by answering some grammar questions: