Free Rice
by Why I think the website is beneficial, and how I think it could be made better.
FreeRice.com is a website dedicated to providing people in poverty-filled nations with food, or one food in particular, rice! On the website you answer questions about everything from English Vocabulary to World Geography.
The website incorporates its question and answer game with a reward system. Every time you get one question correct the website donates twenty grains of rice to those poverty-struck nations filled with hungry people. Now, you look at that and say, wait, that’s it? Only twenty grains? I believe that it’s quite a substantial amount when you look at the bigger picture. If it takes nine-hundred-and-fifty correct answers to feed one person, and there are over five-hundred people on the website at one time, you could feed over one-hundred people every hour if two questions were answered per minute. That’s almost nothing, considering the fact that I can get almost ten questions answered in a minute on average!
If you truly are selfish enough to ask the question, “Well, what’s in it for me?” I’ll tell you! There are over ten catagories of questions to choose from, each with multiple difficulties. If you want to learn harder vocabulary, or work on correcting your grammar, go ahead and crank up the difficulty, you can also change it to another language and try to learn a few new words! So if you really need me to say it, this game will make you smarter!
Now, I do believe that feeding hungry people is great and all, but I think there could be more to this. What I mean is, sure, there people will get fed, but eventually they’ll just go back to being hungry, and I believe the only way to fix that is by helping these people get an education! I think that they should start a new website, not dedicating its donations to food, but instead, dedicating it’s money earned to opening new schools accross the world that can give all of those people in those poverty-filled nations a chance to have a better future. Sure it’d be a lot of work, but, in the end, wouldn’t it be worth it?
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Post CommentK Kristie
On January 24, 2009 at 4:07 am
I agree. Interesting and informative. Will check out the site.
ML Sheldon
On January 24, 2009 at 11:44 am
It’s an interesting concept.
Denise Kawaii
On January 25, 2009 at 10:41 am
An interesting idea and something worth looking into.
Stan Stallone
On January 25, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I sent an e-mail to the creators of the website and told them about my idea for free schools across the world. Hopefully I get a reply back soon.
Tusaani
On January 27, 2009 at 11:26 am
Great idea.
Phoenixritu
On January 31, 2009 at 2:33 am
Nice point. I hope the site owners find your idea worthwhile
Neverty Agisti
On February 3, 2009 at 2:13 am
Subhaanallaah! Interesting but if our clearly only for Allah not for expecting praises (for example)and give it sincerely, our charity will be accepted by Him. Insya Allah!
Miss Heda
On March 11, 2009 at 12:36 am
they have this same thing on facebook my mum spends her days off on the thing haha.
good idea about the school system deffiently need an education to make money to feed those mouths
good peice of info mate i enjoy the read
Stan Stallone
On March 11, 2009 at 8:34 pm
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500742590#/event.php?eid=53418919931
Go check out that link everyone! I am trying to get 100,000 people to dedicate one week to spending each day getting AT LEAST 1000 grains of rice, which is really easy. I want to see how much we can raise their totals for a week.
The Reporter
On March 14, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Very informative! But..
I wonder if they really do give them the rice. If they do, where do they get the money from?
Stan Stallone
On March 15, 2009 at 10:22 am
Yes, they do really give them rice, they use the money generated from the advertisements at the bottom of every page. I’d assume they use all the money generated from correct answers, and donate that, and then any leftover money is spent on the expenses of the website.
James DeVere
On March 17, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I think that’s what we are doing in Triond!
Tusaani
On April 13, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I agree that we should be trying to fix the problem permanently. Good article.