Free Rice – Play and Help the Starving – on FreeRice.com
Free Rice – play and help the starving – on FreeRice.com – FreeRice is a charity website where users play a vocabulary game in order to raise money to fight world hunger. ————————————- “What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does . . . the totals have grown exponentially.” – Washington Post “Addictive, yes. But . . . each correct answer results in the donation of rice to help feed the hungry around the globe. Perhaps that qualifies the game as a good addiction . . . one with redeeming qualities, something that’s, oh, didactic and edifying.” – Kansas City Star “People from all walks of life and from around the globe have written in to express their appreciation for the game . . . Secretaries admit to playing it during boring business meetings.” – Christian Science Monitor “FreeRice.com is one of the most ingenious websites of 2007. In the best spirit of the Internet, it offers education, entertainment and a way to change the world ? all for free.” – Los Angeles Times “Web game provides rice for hungry . . . FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1 billion grains of rice [by November 9].” – BBC News “Freerice.com is an international, viral sensation. Folks from Thailand to Germany and India are just as enthusiastic . . . improving thousands of lives, all with a simple, collective, click of a mouse.” – CBS Evening News “Every grain of rice is essential in the fight against hunger . . . FreeRice really hits home how the Web …
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