A website that embodies humanitarianism

by loqojo on 2009-02-02 23:35:10

If you log on to the http://www.freerice.com/ website, an English word will appear. What you need to do is choose one word from four options that has the closest meaning to the given word. Regardless of whether you answer correctly or not, the game will continue. However, for every correct answer, the advertisers will donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Additionally, you can click "change subjects" to choose your preferred test topics such as art, chemistry, English, geography, foreign language learning (French, German, Italian, and Spanish), and mathematics.

Imagine if every day there are 100 million internet users, and each person spends two or three minutes answering five words correctly, that would total 1 billion grains of rice. An adult consumes about 10,000 grains of rice per day, so this initiative alone could easily solve the hunger problem for 100,000 people. And as a bonus, you can also improve your English.