FreeRice.com-Help End World Hunger With Your Knowledge
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How would you like to help world hunger just by answering a few vocab questions? Its one of the easiest things you can do to help one of our world sufferings.
Its so easy to contribute now:
http://www.FreeRice.com
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Press
"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
"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
"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
"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 can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for the world's number one emergency."
UN World Food Program
"A teacher of fourth and fifth graders on the Yurok Indian reservation in Klamath, CA, . . . emailed the WFP. 'My students absolutely LOVE the FreeRice site. Almost daily they earn several thousand grains of rice!' she wrote. 'You cannot imagine the joy in my heart when I look out and see 25 kids doing vocabulary work and enjoying it.'"
School Library Journal
"Feeling guilty about wasting time on computer solitaire? Join the growing guilt-free multitude at FreeRice.com, an online game with redeeming social value."
USA Today
"The Web site offers a greater gift, the gift of awareness about world hunger."
NPR National Public Radio
"What type of computer game could get kids excited about learning vocabulary words? One that also helps feed hungry people around the world!"
Scholastic News Magazine
"'It's fantastic,' says the World Food Program's Bangladesh director. Adds a 32-year-old widow living in a refugee camp with her 8-year-old daughter, 'I depend on the rice.'"
People Magazine
"FreeRice is a triumph of converting passivity into engagement."
New York Times Magazine
"A simple way to bring kids to the Internet for a good reason, a way to feed their minds and . . . to feed a whole lot of people . . . helping fight world hunger, one grain of rice at a time. "
NBC Evening News
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