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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 08:18 PM
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Web game provides rice for hungry (BBC)
An internet word game has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

The game, FreeRice, tests the vocabulary of participants. For each click on a correct answer, the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice.

Companies advertising on the website provide the money to the WFP to buy and distribute the rice.

FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1bn grains of rice.

That is enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the WFP said on Friday.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7088447.stm

http://www.freerice.com/
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varkam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 08:28 PM
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1. K&R - The more people that know about this, the better.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 08:32 PM
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2. It's kind of addictive too. I think I'll crosspost to the Lounge!
:D
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 09:38 PM
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4. definitely addictive
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 08:43 PM
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3. I'm up to 10,110 grains of rice for today, and I haven't
closed the window yet. Every now and then, I go back and guess another word.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 10:21 PM
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5. I did about 1200 today...
twas fun. :)
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 10:23 PM
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6. kick kick kick
fantastic website.

I think I'm up to just over 1000.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:18 PM
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15. Did you see this?
http://www.poverty.com/internationalaid.html

United States 17 cents 0.17 No schedule yet

Shame, shame, shame!
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bonito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 10:24 PM
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7. Feeding people for sport
is a sad state of affairs, is this what we have become.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 12:19 AM
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8. Thank you. I stopped at 3000. Will go back tomorrow for some more.
Emailed to everyone I know.
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troubleinwinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 12:34 AM
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9. 1,000 grains = one cup of uncooked rice = 3 cups of food
Edited on Sun Nov-11-07 12:35 AM by troubleinwinter
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 12:06 PM
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11. Thank you. I wondered.
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troubleinwinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 12:43 AM
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10. I also emailed...
one was to my dad. I saw him a couple of hours later, and he'd already earned 1,500 rice for the hungry and said he would do it every single day.

He reminded me of the free food for shelter animals, he's been clicking on it each day for a year or so.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 12:07 PM
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12. What is the link for the animal shelter food?
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troubleinwinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 02:36 PM
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13. Click each day for food for rescue animals here:
Each click = .6 bowl of food.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_ars_thankyou_leftnav_logo
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 10:13 PM
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16. Thank you.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 02:38 PM
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14. I love this web site
I've been giving about 1500 grains a day since it was posted here.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 10:19 PM
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17. I've managed to get my vocabulary level up to 46.
Dang! This is hard!
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 09:27 AM
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18. kick
:kick:
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