Help End World Hunger!...By an word game?

[littleone77]

http://freerice.com/ ​

No, I am not crazy. Playing an easy vocabulary word game can help end world hunger.

Follow the link I provided and within minutes you can play along. For every word correctly guess, 10 grains of rice will be donated to the United Nations. The more you play the more rice is given. Yesterday alone, 184, 681, 920 grains of rice was donated. Help make the amount even higher!

Plus, its super easy, web browser friendly and it helps improve your vocabulary!

 

[littleone77]

Bump because I am way too hyper on pixie sticks and I want to demostrate the simple fact that I posted this thread days ago.

So there. I am self satisified with my posting work.

 

[EmpressFi]

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=554676

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Spotted and played from CM's thread before seeing this one - way to go, both of you, for finding something both fun and useful!

 

[littleone77]

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=554676

Mine was first. Thus why I posted. No one responded in this area but in the Playground some people were neat enough to post. I think a lot of it has to do with popularity and validity but anyhow...

Either way though, Sir Winston is right. Its an awesome sight for a great cause.

 

[CutieMouse]

*****

 

[JMohegan]

http://freerice.com/ ​

No, I am not crazy. Playing an easy vocabulary word game can help end world hunger.

Follow the link I provided and within minutes you can play along. For every word correctly guess, 10 grains of rice will be donated to the United Nations. The more you play the more rice is given. Yesterday alone, 184, 681, 920 grains of rice was donated. Help make the amount even higher!

Plus, its super easy, web browser friendly and it helps improve your vocabulary!

Wary of unfamiliar sites, especially those alleging charitable intent, I did some quick research and found a press release from the UN's World Food Programme.


Rome, 9 November 2007 - The head of the UN’s World Food Programme Josette Sheeran has acclaimed the phenomenally successful internet-based vocabulary game FreeRice as an example of the Web’s power to mobilise millions of people in the fight against global hunger.

Yesterday marked the one billionth grain of rice donated to WFP through an innovative, dynamic online campaign – enough to feed more than 50,000 people for one day.

“Every grain of rice is essential in the fight against hunger,” said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran , adding that hunger claims more lives than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

“FreeRice really hits home how the Web can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for the world’s number one emergency. The site is a viral marketing success story with more than one billion grains of rice donated in just one month to help tackle hunger worldwide.”

For every correct answer to FreeRice’s online vocabulary game, the site donates 10 grains of rice to its official humanitarian partner, WFP .

Just 830 grains of rice were donated on FreeRice’s October 7 launch date. Since then, bloggers and social networking sites like YouTube and Facebook have helped spread the word and, on November 8 alone, over 70 million grains were donated – equivalent to more than seven million clicks on the site.

FreeRice is the latest brainchild of US online fundraising pioneer John Breen, who first tied funds to clicks on the Web in 1999 with the Hunger Site, at the time, a WFP partner. Breen runs the Poverty.com website, a portal for information and facts about hunger and related diseases.

FreeRice relies on private companies’ ad space payments to underwrite donations to WFP.



Hats off to Breen for his ingenuity and compassion, and to littleone77 and CM for spreading the word.

The FreeRice site is currently reporting 2,628,006,040 grains donated so far.

 

[JMohegan]

Music to play by:

Nice hair, guys.

 

[FurryFury]

I didn't see this thread until after it got bumped. I saw the other thread first.

I don't think that's all about popularity though I will confess I do have a select few people that I usually make time to see what they wrote because I feel like we are usually on the same wave length or I just like what they write.

I've now forwarded this game to my kids and husband. Whoo hoo!

 

[littleone77]

Wary of unfamiliar sites, especially those alleging charitable intent, I did some quick research and found a press release from the UN's World Food Programme.

I agree and understand where you come from. Usually I stay away from such sites. However in this case you cannot lose. Even if the rice does not get donated, highly unlikely, it is still a fun game.

I disagree Ms.FurryFurry *teases* but all that counts is that rice is being donated.

 

[FurryFury]

I totally agree with you about the rice.

I understand that you disagree about the whole popularity forum issue too. I'm okay with people not agreeing with me.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

This kind of game, I'd have played - and posted - in whatever thread I saw it in. I happened to catch CM's thread on it before yours (it had been posted in more recently than had yours), or I'd have picked up on it "immedjutly." Anything to do with words/language/etc. gets my attention - I'd have been there like a shot if hers hadn't been higher on the list.

Regardless of who "got in first" with it, I'm just happy to have found it - I lub that kinda stuff, and having it provide food to the hungry is a major bonus. Again, thank you both for finding it and posting it here!

 

[callinectes]

I can't stop playing this game! It is too fun. At least my wasted time is going towards a good cause!

 

[myinnerslut]

bump... becuase world hunger isn't over yet.