Make Your Playing Habit Helpful to Others
Playing games is a form of entertainment for many. But now, it has even become one of the ways to end world hunger.
John Brien, an American web designer designed an online game to provide free rice to hungry people and to improve English vocabulary for everyone who plays it.
Freerice
, a sister site of
Poverty
, was started on 7th October this year. First day only 830 grains of rice were donated to hungry people but within a month 20,000 kilo grams of rice grains were donated. At present this site feeds 50000 people daily.
Playing this game is very easy. You are given an English word, and you have to answer the synonym of it from the four given choices. At first the questions are very simple. The difficulty increases with every correct answer. You score 10 rice grains for every right answer and the total rice grains scored are donated to hungry people by the sponsors who advertise on this site. Many famous International companies like Toshiba, Apple etc. had come forward to advertise on this site. They donate the required income earned through the advertisements to WFP (World Food Program) to feed the hungry people.
Many people are enjoying this game two-fold: one for improving their English vocabulary and another for feeding the hungry people. Why late? Taste the free rice today.
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IcyCucky
On November 28, 2007 at 7:00 am
Thank you for sharing this information, valli..
valli
On November 28, 2007 at 8:05 am
Thank you Icy.
Jodi
On December 4, 2007 at 1:34 pm
That is such a great thing. What better way to help people and have fun at the same time?
valli
On December 5, 2007 at 1:20 am
Thats true.. what an idea from John Brien! Hats off to him!!
Nelson Doyle
On December 5, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Wow, what an amazing idea and it is already helping so many people. Great article and information, valli. Thank you for sharing it with us and I will pass this article around to folks that I know.
valli
On December 6, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Thanks Nelson for that… And, a small change in the article. Now the number of rice grains you score per correct answer is increased to 20 from 10.
Nelson Doyle
On December 7, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Hi Valli -
I hope that you do not mind that I included a link to this article in my latest piece. I explained to my readers that your article explained the free rice program in greater detail, then my own article.
Thanks again for sharing this information with the rest of use.
Prasanna
On December 10, 2007 at 6:37 am
Good script continue your service
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