Monday, January 28, 2008

FreeRice.com

Isaiah 58:10
Feed the hungry,and help those in trouble.
Then your light will shine out from the darkness,
and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.


I was reading the USA Today this week and saw and article for the website FreeRice.com. This site is an online game that was developed by a father, John Breen, to quiz his son for the SAT. The game presents a word and four choices of definition. Pick right, and the cash equivalent of 20 grains of rice is donated by site advertisers to the U.N. World Food Program.

Breen indicates it took him four months to load 10,200 words. It is a sister site to Poverty.com, Breen's hunger awareness site. From October 2007-January 2008, players have donated more than 15 billion grains of rice, enough to feed more than 700,000 people for one day.

Check it out. Help feed the hungry.

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