Free Rice! Carbs for Everyone!

53. Donate 10K grains of rice at freerice.com

I’m not entirely sure where I picked up this site, but somehow or another, I stumbled upon FreeRice.com.  It’s a site that asks you to answer questions, and for every question answered correctly, they’ll donate 10 grains of rice to feed needy people.  Trivia + helping those in need = something I can get my head around!

You may be saying to yourself “That sounds really weird, why wouldn’t they just donate all the rice instead of testing your vocabulary?” and I’ll admit I said the same thing.  However, the money they make on the sponsors pays for the rice.  In the time they’ve been going, here’s where the rice has gone to:

• In Bangladesh, to feed 27,000 refugees from Myanmar for two weeks.
• In Cambodia, to provide take-home rations of four kilograms of rice for two months to 13,500 pregnant and nursing women.
• In Uganda, to feed 66,000 school children for a week.
• In Nepal, to feed over 108,000 Bhutanese refugees for three days.
• In Bhutan, to feed 41,000 children for 8 days.
• In Myanmar, to feed 750,000 cyclone affected people for 3 days.

So far, I’ve only donated 2K grains towards my goal of 10K (which will probably be bumped up as I progress through this challenge) but I’m also planning on introducing this to my English teacher colleagues to pass on to their students, especially juniors.  The students can get their SAT practice in, while simultaneously helping out those who need it.

Check it out!