Gaming + Charity = Freerice.com

FreeRice.com is a brilliant mix of technology and charity.

FreeRice is an online game that that uses it’s advertising revenues to donate food to charities. It’s a vocab game, pick the right meaning of a word and you’ll donate 10 grains of rice to a needy country. Pretty simple, but surprisingly addictive, the first time I played the game I managed to donate about 1000 grains. Little effort for me, but a huge effect to those who need it (and it’s a pretty fun game too).

This is a brilliant use of the internet, the game doesn’t cost you a thing. With a viral site such as this, I’m sure they’re seeing lots of traffic and lots of money, which means lots of donations. The site started on October 7th, 2007, and has already donated almost 200,000,000 grains of rice! That’s an average of about 11 million grains per day!

Go on, play a game. You can help those who need it and it won’t cost you a penny.

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