I came across this site through my favourite web tutorial space, Ndesign-studio. There are many charitable organisations out there, and here is one particular one that I rather enjoy playing with and helping out the community at the same time. Free Rice, is a site that lets you improve your vocabulary and end world hunger at the same time. Bit by bit. It is a sister site of Poverty.com started by John Breen and this organization hopes to end world hunger.

How Do you play the game? The minute you go into FreeRice you are given a main word and four other words. You are suppose to figure out which word has the same meaning as the main word. E.g.

Lug means : itemize     fantasize     reveal     haul

Correct answer here is Lug means haul. When you get a correct word, you win 20 grains of rice and this just keeps increasing and increasing as you play.  The free rice you are giving away to those in need is already paid for by the advertisers that appear at the bottom of the page everytime you click to go to a new word. A bit on poverty and hunger

About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often. Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families. There are effective programs to break this spiral. For adults, there are “food for work” programs where the adults are paid with food to build schools, dig wells, make roads, and so on. This both nourishes them and builds infrastructure to end the poverty. For children, there are “food for education” programs where the children are provided with food when they attend school. Their education will help them to escape from hunger and global poverty.

Hunger and World Poverty Sources: United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Oxfam, UNICEF.

Note: The world hunger map display above is representational only and does not show the names and faces of real people. The photographs are computer composites of multiple individuals.

So what are you waiting… go get learning some english and save some lives