A very interesting way to donate food

[Scarbo the Black Sheep]

My little brother told me about a website called http://freerice.com where you can answer simple questions and sponsors will donate 20 grains of rice to hungry people for each correct educational question answered. There are various subjects for varying ages. What do you guys think about it?

 

[Conic]

I just donated 120 grains.

I've heard of this before, but it's still cool.

 

[clairebun]

Did this at English class last year. Interesting, to say the least.

 

[verifiaman]

I just donated 120 grains.

I've heard of this before, but it's still cool.

I got 860 in 2 minutes.

 

[Fawfulfan]

I've heard of this before. It's an interesting concept, but it raises an important question: If they have enough rice to feed 20 grains to the poor for each question answered, why don't they just give all the rice to the poor in the first place?

 

[Blitzzo]

Why would you need to do that? Some of the subjects offered are incredibly easy, like the Multiplication Times Tables and English Grammar (I _hope_). And you can always just set the level to 1. That's not the point. The point is to sharpen your brain while the page displays advertising from the World Food Program (to pay for the donated rice). If you're going to use a method to more easily answer the questions, you'll only fulfill part of this.

And "hacker" is used incorrectly in this context. Please check your jargon before you use it.

 

[Ultimate]

Here's another site that's similar, but you can only donate food once a day. All you have to do is click, and donate is done ^^

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickT...id=2FA13E354DB874D752AD3ED47CE616B8.ctgProd01

Wow, I donated 2000 grains of rice, then stopped xD

 

[Jazz]

Donated 1/30 of a pound of rice.

Apparently there are about 30,000 grains per pound of long-grain white rice, as I've recently found out. So, we're up to almost 1/6 a pound of rice now?

 

[Scarbo the Black Sheep]

I've heard of this before. It's an interesting concept, but it raises an important question: If they have enough rice to feed 20 grains to the poor for each question answered, why don't they just give all the rice to the poor in the first place?

Sponsors pay. Without banner ads, they have no funding.

 

[Ice]

Just donated 1000 grains, the math problems are very easy. I hope this is real, or else I just wasted some time.

 

[Scarbo the Black Sheep]

There are also English vocabulary and Periodic Table of the Elements stuff if you click Subjects. That can also improve your knowledge. :D

 

[Chaos Knux]

I just did 4000 grains starting at SonicMaster's post . (English vocab + dictionary.com FTW!)

 

[Scarbo the Black Sheep]

Ice, if BW did this last year at English class, the site has obviously been around a fair while. And if it were fake, it would have been shut down by now. So you just donated like a whole bowl of rice! Nice job.

 

[clairebun]

I think I should correct myself: last school year. I believe it was only a matter of six months when we did that.

But still, yeah, it was a while back.

 

[Scarbo the Black Sheep]

Six thousand. :D

 

[Ultimate]

Don't forget to click here too!

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickT...id=2FA13E354DB874D752AD3ED47CE616B8.ctgProd01

Each time you click you donate 1.1 cups of rice!
Also, I remember when I first went to this site, about 8 years ago. So it's definitely authentic.

 

[Ice]

Ice, if BW did this last year at English class, the site has obviously been around a fair while. And if it were fake, it would have been shut down by now. So you just donated like a whole bowl of rice! Nice job.

Yea, I read that after I made my post. I feel fuzzy inside now. ^-^

 

[Blade]

I've played this quite a few months ago. I think I got 5000 grains of rice when I first played it.

 

[Jellybones]

Just donated 1000 grains of rice. This is good to sharpen the old noodle, and help people.
I bookmarked this site.

 

[Conic]

Everybody do the math problems! It's easy to get so many...