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Lend Your Support and Have Fun!

by Peter on Dec.26, 2009, under thoughts

You will notice a new banner on my sidebar, starting today, linking you to freerice.com. Freerice.com allows you to waste some time on the computer and help feed starving people across the world. You answer vocabulary questions (they have also expanded to a few other subjects too) and for every correct answer they will contribute 10 grains of rice to the United Nations “World Food Program.” We all waste a good amount of time doing nothing on the computer, why not make a little of that time count, help a good cause and expand your vocabulary and knowledge base a little?

Since it’s inception, in October, 2007, Freerice has donated approximately 72 billion grains of rice, to fight world hunger. That’s enough rice to sustain approximately 3.6 million people for one day or approximately 7000 people a day, since it started.

It works because sponsors agree to pay for the rice and to keep the site running in exchange for advertising space on the site. The advertisements all run on banners below the playing screen so you don’t have to worry about dealing with a bunch of pop up ads.

So the next time you have a few minutes, head over to freerice.com, either through the banner here or by typing in the address, and waste a few minutes of your time. It’s for a good cause.

By the way, I don’t receive any payment or added exposure by placing this banner on my blog. I am doing it because I believe in what they do and feel that this cause deserves all the exposure it can get.

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