John Breen, a computer programmer from Indiana wanted a tool to help his son study for the SATs. He also
wanted to help raise awareness about world hunger. Thus, FreeRice.com was born! FreeRice.com is the sister site to Breen's hunger-awareness site Poverty.com. On FreeRice, you play a vocabulary game, and for every correct guess you donate 20 grains of rice via the United Nations World Food Programme. FreeRice launched on October 7, 2007, and by today's count, 15,756,331,270 grains of rice have been donated thus far (that's enough to feed 700,000 people for a day). According to USA Today, The U.N.'s World Food Programme "gets the donations in cash---$258,000 thus far---and buys the rice locally." This is such a fabulous idea, for not only are you giving food to those in need, but you are also learning something at the same time! To play and donate, you can visit the link in this post or click on the FreeRice.com banner on this blog!
On a related note, the folks at almostmonumental.com found two more sites whose aim is to put an end to world hunger. With a simple mouse click on both TheHungerSite.com and hungerfighters.com, you can donate food to a person in need somewhere in the world. Bookmark these sites today and click away!
I love this post considering I have a son taking the SATs!!! I am going to post this on my site, Green Talk, as well (of course giving you credit!) Nice find.
Speaking of education take a look at the Go Green Database (http://www.edutopia.org/go-green) from the Lucas Foundation (yes the star wars guy). K-12 lesson plans, teaching tools, field trips, etc. Pretty amazing. Anna www.green-talk.com
Posted by: Anna Hackman | February 03, 2008 at 04:03 PM