Feed the Hungry for Just Ten Words a Day

I found this link to Free Rice on Kyra’s blog today. Here is the site’s premise: you answer multiple-choice vocabulary questions that increase in difficulty in order to donate rice to third-world countries through the UN. For each word you correctly identify with its synonym, Free Rice donates 10 grains to the needy. It’s run by Poverty.com and has two goals:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.       

2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

I never imagined playing a game on the Internet could feed hungry people. Granted, my 110-grain donation today is about 2 or 3 spoonfuls, or 14 if you’re conservative, but combined with everyone else’s it’s sure to make a dent. As of November 25, Free Rice had donated 3.8 billion grains of rice. I think they should set up a site call Free Rice Cookers where you can form valid English sentences with the words you’ve learned from Free Rice to distribute rice-cooking pots to hungry people. Then they should have Free Chefs, where you compile your sentences into a paragraph to hire a chef for one week in a third-world country. And if you are ambitious enough to write a book, they should open a restaurant. FreeRestaurant.com — is it far off?