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FreeRice
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Description: Word Game, for each word you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program.
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Play FreeRice...One Word = Ten Grains of Rice...Help End World Hunger
Like word games? Want to do something to help end world hunger? Then you'll like playing the FreeRice vocabulary challenge game during your lunch break and earn grains of rice to help feed the hungry. As of this review, from October 7-Oct 29, game-players, like myself, have collectively donated a total of 372,382,150 grains of rice. This rice is paid for by the sponsors. The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Hunger Program, which works in collaboration with over 1,000 organizations in more than 75 countries around the globe.
Update: as of 1-01-08 FreeRice gameplayers with the financial backing of online advertisers have donated over 12 billion grains of rice. Be sure to print out a letter to send the the President of the United States that says: "We respectfully ask our government to help stop the tens of thousands of preventable deaths that occur every day from hunger and poverty-related diseases.
Specifically, we ask our country to honor the agreement it made and signed at the 2002 Monterrey Conference and again at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit to make concrete efforts towards giving 0.7% of our national income in aid to poor countries.
The United Nations estimates that when all 22 countries that signed the agreement meet the 0.7% goal, the resulting $195 billion each year will be enough to effectively end hunger and extreme poverty in the world.
We commend the countries that have already reached the 0.7% goal: Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
We also commend the countries that have set up a schedule to meet the 0.7% goal and encourage them in their efforts to reach it as soon as possible: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
We respectfully ask the six remaining countries to honor their agreement and set up a schedule to reach the 0.7% goal: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States."
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