American Website will donate 10 Grains of Freerice, To the United Nations, everytime you play their online wordgame.
Posted: Saturday, November 10, 2007
by Sacreeta
What does playing a webgame and freerice have to do with feeding the hungry? Plenty, and there's plenty of rice being donated, all for the work of solving a simple online word game.
Hats off to US online company entitled freerice, with fundraising pioneer John Breen, creator, with sponsors such as Toshiba, Liz Clairborne, Raddison Hotels and Resorts, American Express, ITunes, Macys, to name a few, have donated 63,253,810 grains of rice on Nov 09 th alone, and has donated a total of 1,072,025,720 since the website was posted on October 07, 2007 of this year. That is reportedly enough to feed up to 50,000 people a day, as reported by the WPF said Friday.
They call it a form of Viral Marketing, The head of the WFP, (World Food Program) Josette Sheeran, said: "FreeRice really hits home how the web can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for the world's number one emergency." She also added, that websites like Facebook, and Youtube have really been spreading the word, and internet bloggers are also getting their URL out there. "The site is a viral marketing success story."
A growing number of countries worldwide are supporting this venture, for each $100 earned in each country, the countries pledged how much they would donate in aid, so far Sweden, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherlands, and Denmark have already reached their goal.
On their sister site, Poverty.com, you can click on your country, and a letter will be sent requesting 0.7% in international aid, and maybe you can get your country on the list. Countries who are not yet signed are the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Switzerland, and the reason being would be that there are democratic societies (as in they are swayed by public opinion.)
It was a long hard struggle for the aid supporters in the UK , and Germany, sending thousands of letters to their governments to join in the campaign in solving world hunger. Back in 2002, the world leaders attended the Johannesburg Summit, such big leagues as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President George Bush, French President Jacques Chirac, got together to discuss the concept of making concrete efforts towards the goal of shared wealth, as it were. Each country was asked to donate 0.7% of their national income as an aid to the poorest countries. These same 22 counties re-affirmed their commitment to reach the 0.7% goal, this would provide enough money to raise the $195 billion per year needed to end world hungry.
An American Online Company freerice is doing their part, to step in and help, and if you want to join in the fight against world hunger, why not click on the link below and try out their word game. Share the link with family and friends, and your children and their schools, and if your country isn't on the list, feel free to submit the letter they have on their site to your government.
Feed the world with a grain of rice, and a simple word game! It can be done my friends. This site not only enhances your vocabulary for free, but they also are a sister site to Poverty.com, and the grains of rice collected are worth a little bit of your free time.
The wordgame starts out easy, with a cute picture of a wooden rice bowl, and it asks you to define a word, and everytime you are correct, your vocabulary level rises, along with the grains of rice collected in the bowl. I got up to a level 26, before I had to go, and 1010 grams of rice were donated, but it was all in fun!
Heres the link, and you can check it out for yourself. http://www.freerice.com/index.php
To print the letter, its here on Poverty.coms site
http://www.poverty.com/printletter.html
The United Nations World Food Program Link
http://www.wfp.org/english/
Heres to ending world hunger
Peace out!
Written by: Sacreeta
Hats off to US online company entitled freerice, with fundraising pioneer John Breen, creator, with sponsors such as Toshiba, Liz Clairborne, Raddison Hotels and Resorts, American Express, ITunes, Macys, to name a few, have donated 63,253,810 grains of rice on Nov 09 th alone, and has donated a total of 1,072,025,720 since the website was posted on October 07, 2007 of this year. That is reportedly enough to feed up to 50,000 people a day, as reported by the WPF said Friday.
A growing number of countries worldwide are supporting this venture, for each $100 earned in each country, the countries pledged how much they would donate in aid, so far Sweden, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherlands, and Denmark have already reached their goal.
On their sister site, Poverty.com, you can click on your country, and a letter will be sent requesting 0.7% in international aid, and maybe you can get your country on the list. Countries who are not yet signed are the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Switzerland, and the reason being would be that there are democratic societies (as in they are swayed by public opinion.)
It was a long hard struggle for the aid supporters in the UK , and Germany, sending thousands of letters to their governments to join in the campaign in solving world hunger. Back in 2002, the world leaders attended the Johannesburg Summit, such big leagues as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President George Bush, French President Jacques Chirac, got together to discuss the concept of making concrete efforts towards the goal of shared wealth, as it were. Each country was asked to donate 0.7% of their national income as an aid to the poorest countries. These same 22 counties re-affirmed their commitment to reach the 0.7% goal, this would provide enough money to raise the $195 billion per year needed to end world hungry.
An American Online Company freerice is doing their part, to step in and help, and if you want to join in the fight against world hunger, why not click on the link below and try out their word game. Share the link with family and friends, and your children and their schools, and if your country isn't on the list, feel free to submit the letter they have on their site to your government.
Feed the world with a grain of rice, and a simple word game! It can be done my friends. This site not only enhances your vocabulary for free, but they also are a sister site to Poverty.com, and the grains of rice collected are worth a little bit of your free time.
The wordgame starts out easy, with a cute picture of a wooden rice bowl, and it asks you to define a word, and everytime you are correct, your vocabulary level rises, along with the grains of rice collected in the bowl. I got up to a level 26, before I had to go, and 1010 grams of rice were donated, but it was all in fun!
Heres the link, and you can check it out for yourself. http://www.freerice.com/index.php
To print the letter, its here on Poverty.coms site
http://www.poverty.com/printletter.html
The United Nations World Food Program Link
http://www.wfp.org/english/
Heres to ending world hunger
Peace out!
Written by: Sacreeta
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