Visit FreeRice.Com

FreeRice.com is a charity website that enables visitors to earn rice donations for clicking correct answers to trivia in a chosen subject area. You can test your skills in a foreign language, chemical symbols, basic math, geography, etc. My favorite is English vocabulary.

At the site's inception in October 2007, rice cost about half as much per metric ton as it costs today. As of January 2009 the worth of each correct click has been reduced from twenty grains of rice to ten. The site was so successful at first that they were able to make each visitor's correct answer worth twenty grains of rice in 2008, but changes in the economy, resulting in fewer online sponsors, have brought the worth of our clicking back down.

Escarpment means: overview; steep slope; plotter; magnificence. I choose steep slope, earn ten grains of rice.

As of today, the monetary value of over 60 billion grains of rice have been donated to the United Nations World Food Program via FreeRice.com. The site's inventor, John Breen, explains the significance of each grain of rice: "Each day 25,000 people die of hunger."

At the same time the site has helped billions of people improve scholastic performance, communicate more effectively, and curb boredom. It is a fun past-time in the U.S. and Europe with deep and vital significance for hungry refugees of Myanmar, school children in Uganda, nursing women in Cambodia. If you don't know where all of these places are, go to FreeRice.com, and choose the Geography option to broaden your horizons.

For me, I'll stick with the vocabulary. Dubiety = uncertainty, and ten more grains are donated. I trust the money is going where it ought. I verified the site with Snopes.com and watched video of rice distribution at wfp.org. Caravel = sailing ship, for ten more grains. I don't know the next word, brancard, and guess wrong. When I click its definition later I will have learned something new and donated more food.

So visit FreeRice.com. Choose your subject area, then click away. Watch the pretty wooden bowl fill with virtual rice, and know that you are helping someone in need. If you love it like I do, you'll make it your homepage.

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