"Many words are poverty." Greek proverb
World leaders at the G-20 Summit this week focused on global finance and economy. Their slogan says it all: Stability. Growth. Jobs. Well, not quite all. How about world hunger?
My sister Judy sent me a link to a brain game produced by the good people at Poverty.com The first part tests your Vocabulary. Maybe even helps build it. Each correct answer can help build a child's starving body.
With FreeRice. Ten grains at a time.
For each answer you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
What could be more worthwhile than that? I can't say it any better than my sister's email:
If you like our language and occasionally think about world hunger, go for it. I love it!
PS: If you aren't interested, that's OK, too. Just delete it and don't give a thought to the starving children.....
You can also test your vocabulary in Foreign Languages.
How's your knowledge of World Geography?
FreeRice
I didn't even go near the Math or Chemistry sections. But if you can, you should.
The next time you sit at your computer playing solitaire, play FreeRice instead.
You'll not only improve your mind, you'll improve your soul. And maybe, if enough of us participate, we can improve the quality of some other's lives.
One bowl at a time.
That's a lot of rice. Unless you're trying to feed millions of starving people.
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Rrrrrrrrrrated!
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The math is ridiculously easy if we all take some time we could feed a lot of people.
Thanks, I've bookmarked th site.
i'm not sure what the point is. it doesn't generate any more revenue to buy rice. what, are they going to withhold rice for the sake of the game.
what am i missing here?
Who is counting the grains of rice.
And I don't really get it. Why does my ability to answer the meaning of ubiquitous earn a grain of rice for anyone anywhere? I should go back to the site and find out myself.
It was fun. And I like how if you miss one the question shows up later to see if you've retained the correct answer or not, so you are not just taking a test, you're learning too. I'm goofy, I actually like taking tests. SATs were fun for me, of course back when I took them there weren't coaches and courses the parents paid big bucks for. We just took them and that was that.
It is fun and has the potential for addiction. Oh well, what's one more addiction to the list.
Last time I played I worked my way up to whatever score they claim is the highest of all time (55? it's been a while), but it was sort of cheating because there are so few words at the highest levels that it's not hard to memorize all of them. You gotta get up there first though!