Wednesday, 8 October 2008

Change the World 1 Grain of Rice at a Time

Help end world hunger

Free Rice is one of my favourite ever charity websites its so simple, so addictive and a great cause.  Basically it is a vocabulary game (there are now also other subjects including geography, chemistry and languages) where you get a word, four potential meanings and you have to know the right one.  For each correct answer 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.  

I have decided to set a challenge.  I want all you loyal readers to play this game as much as possible (its a great way to procrasinate at work - and then bamboozle your boss with your new vocabulary when explaining why you haven't finished that project) keep track of how many grains you have donated (go to options and select 'remember my personal rice donation...') then by the 20th of December I want you each to send me a screenshot of your total rice donated - along with a picture of yourself.  I will make it my personal mission to go onto Free Rice and equal the total amount donated as my Christmas present to the world...Clearly after this my posts will get a lot more sophisticated and less accessible to the non-charitable reader :-)

Good luck and I'll post a reminder closer to the time.


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm in ;)
Already started to play.... :D