Free Rice! You can help feed the poor even if you have no money.

M

Musulmanin

Junior Member
:salam2:


Brothers/sisters,

By playing FREE educational games on this site www.freerice.com the site arranges 10 grains of rice given to hungry/poor for each correct answer. You learn English vocabulary or other things and donations are distributed by the United Nations's World Food Programme (WFP).

Read more about it here>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRice


"The believer's shade on the Day of Resurrection will be his charity." - Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 604

So donate some of you time in front of computer to feed the poor inshAllah.


Also, don't forget to post on this thread to keep the thread afloat inshAllah.
 
palestine

palestine

Servant of Allah
i love this website, it increases your vocabularly at the same time might help the poor get rice and so on. jazakAllahu khayran. wasalamu 3alaykum wrwb.
 
palestine

palestine

Servant of Allah
i just played, got upto 840 grains. inshaAllahu ta'ala i'll play some more later. jazakAllahu khayran. :)
 
q8penpals

q8penpals

Junior Member
Assalam aliekum

This is one website I allow my students to go to freely when they have completed their work - helps them learn and they help people too! I have used it with them for over a year.
 
W

wannabe_muttaqi

A MUSLIM BROTHER
Asslamu Alaikum

:salam2: ,
it is a good passtime and it is very beneficial too.

Thanks for this post , i shall send it to my friends.

:wasalam:
 
M

mufakkir

Junior Member
Salaam Alaikum,

As a teacher i've used this website during a few of my tutorial sessions with my form group. It's great. the kids love it.

Was Salaam
 
Tabassum07

Tabassum07

Smile for Allah
This is a fantastic website! I got 1000 grains of rice, and my best level was Level 40 :D

But I wonder if this rice really reaches the poor. Who's accountable. Do they even give it, or does some corrupt official take it themselves? What's the guarantee? I have no confidence in the world.
 
q8penpals

q8penpals

Junior Member
Assalam aliekum

My thought on this (and on all charity groups) is that THEY will have to answer for any corruption - insha'Allah I will get reward for my intention to help others. The freerice group is part of the World Food Program, which is known to be a reputable charity group (and the sponsors are so wide and varied, that it would be very difficult for the group to "rob everything")

I love the fact that the site now has lots of other subjects besides just vocabulary (click Subjects at the top of the page and you can do art, math, languages and more!)

For information about how you or your company can sponsor FreeRice, please email [email protected].
 
M

Musulmanin

Junior Member
Tabassum07 said:
I wonder if this rice really reaches the poor. Who's accountable. Do they even give it, or does some corrupt official take it themselves? What's the guarantee? I have no confidence in the world.
Click to expand...

:salam2:

In exchange for advertisements on the website, various sponsors donate the money necessary to pay for the rice and other costs to run FreeRice. The donations are distributed by the United Nations's World Food Programme (WFP), starting with Bangladesh. FreeRice's partner is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. The most common countries to transport rice to are: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bhutan, Uganda, and Nepal, even though it can travel all over the world (as of early 2008). By this time, the site's creator had given over US$213,000 to the WFP which encourages people to visit freerice.com. On 20 November, the WFP launched a campaign to "feed a child for Thanksgiving."


Effectiveness
In its first six months of operation, FreeRice donated over 42 billion grains of rice. One month after the inception of the viral marketing program, users had earned enough points for one billion grains of rice. The United Nation's World Food Programme stated that this amount could feed 50,000 people for one day.[4] Thus, approximately 20,000 grains of rice provide enough caloric intake to sustain an adult for one day. Using this calculation, enough rice is donated to feed about 7,000 people daily.


Awards
Yahoo! Pick of the Year 2007 – Charity Category – Winner

Berkman Award to Freerice.com creator, John Breen. He was recognized with a Berkman Award for creating FreeRice.com on May 16, 2008. At the Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s tenth anniversary gala dinner, recipients of the Berkman Awards were chosen for their outstanding contributions to the Internet’s impact on society over the past decade.
 
M

Musulmanin

Junior Member
Monthly count

Month Total grains of rice

October 2007 537,163,380
November 2007 4,768,969,790
December 2007 6,948,988,060
January 2008 4,551,581,980
February 2008 3,893,361,180
March 2008 4,109,191,320
April 2008 5,614,647,060
May 2008 4,657,641,260
June 2008 3,043,677,360
July 2008 2,046,077,880
August 2008 1,918,976,960
September 2008 3,149,870,660
October 2008 3,739,408,120
November 2008 3,678,546,760
December 2008 3,539,642,160
January 2009 2,416,239,520
February 2009 1,663,509,530
March 2009 1,830,287,650
April 2009 1,478,963,720
May 2009 1,403,545,670
 
I

IDAHLLI

Junior Member
Thank you I ve share it on my facebook and all my other accounts and email contacts and i will play too :)

pour pratiquer Francais, l'anglais et l'italianne
MERCI :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top