Help end Hunger and increase your knowledge

[Ershad]

Assalamu Alaikkum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu,

"For each answer you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through The World Food Programme to help end hunger".


FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Programme.

FreeRice has two goals:

Provide education to everyone for free.
Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.​

This is made possible by the generosity of the sponsors who advertise on this site.
Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your education can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.

The questions you answer can be from either one of the following catergories according to your choice. If you answer wrong, it is not a problem, you get to know the answer immediately and move to the next question. Therefore, you learn something new. This is something you can do when you are free and it is fun way to learn.

After you Sign up, you can track the number of grains you have helped to donate. You can also form groups and do it. There is already a group named Muslims Fighting World Hunger.
So you can join them and answer the questions.

Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. And a part of this also goes to muslim countries like occupied Palestine territory, syria and yemen. You can check the countries under the programme here - http://www.wfp.org/countries .

Feel free to contact us, you can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.
Thank you.

http://www.freerice.com

Baarakallahu feekum.

 

[Itqan Ullah]

Asslamaliekum warahmatullahi wabrakatu,
Jazakallah Khairan bro, Inshallah I'll try this out.

 

[-Marwan-]

I have been using this site for about a week now, jazakallah khairan for sharing to the rest brother may Allah (swt) reward you

 

[strive-may-i]

:salam2:


Good to see this site after many years. That site has grown! Useful for improving one's vocabulary and the satisfaction of helping for a greater cause too. Can be a favorite with kids who have an urge to help, learn and lot of free time

For curious ones:
Based on Rice variety, 1 KG contains around 30,000-50,000 grains of rice.

Impressive Humanity in action:
Site has so far gathered 9 billion grains
Amounts to anywhere between
187500 KG of Rice (Assuming 48000 Grains in 1KG, as per rice.com)
257142 KG of rice (Assuming 30,000 Grains in 1 KG).


And Excerpt from the FAQ section of freerice.com:

From: http://freerice.com/about/faq
Often World Food Programme is able to purchase the rice in the very countries where the beneficiaries are located, cutting down on the transport time to reach the hungry and helping to stimulate local economies at the same time.
Here are some examples of where Freerice rice has been distributed:
Cambodia: From June 2011, all rice raised on Freerice will go to Cambodia where it will be purchased locally and will support our school meal programmes there. It’s not the first time Freerice has supported Cambodia. We previously provided enough rice to feed 13,500 women.
Haiti: From January 2011 until May 2011, rice was allocated to Haiti. Nearly 6 billion grains of rice was donated, enough to feed nearly 300,000 people two meals for a day.
In Bangladesh, to feed 27,000 refugees from Myanmar for two weeks. Watch Freerice being distributed in Bangladesh.
In Cambodia, to provide take-home rations of four kilograms of rice for two months to 13,500 pregnant and nursing women.
In Uganda, to feed 66,000 school children for a week.
In Nepal, to feed over 108,000 Bhutanese refugees for three days.
In Bhutan, to feed 41,000 children for 8 days.
In Myanmar, to feed 750,000 cyclone affected people for 3 days.


How much rice does it take to feed a person for a day? How many grains of rice in a gram?
The composition of UN World Food Programme food basket varies from country to country and region to region, depending upon the eating habits of the people WFP feeds.
In countries where rice is a staple part of the diet, World Food Programme provides, on average about 400 grams of rice per person, per day (for families, including children and adults). That is intended for two meals that include other ingredients to ensure a minimum of 2,100 kilocalories per day.
There are about 48 grains of rice in a gram.

Jazakallaahu khairan!

NOTE: I have not spent many hours there

 

[Aapa]

Assalaam walaikum,,

You can have groups..there are some Muslim groups there.

Please do not use a computer program..some do..

The guy who started this is an American...and he purchases all the rice. Gotta give credit where credit is due.

I use it for my students.