Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
Feed the hungry for free
Last week I gave a quick shout-out to Free Rice in a post about rethinking African aid. Since then, I've really gotten addicted to this website. You learn words and help feed the poor. What can be better.The way the website works, you never get bored because the words are tailored to your ability level. So you could be a Chinese student learning English for the first time or a word Nazi over at the New Yorker. Works for both.
I think this is a great example of how the Internet has reinvented the nonprofit field. Not only does it make donating easier, but here's a case where you don't even have to shell out a buck. Definitely worth a play.
Filed under: Activism
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Eva Dec 10th 2007 8:46AM
Sounds like a cool site - you'll have to pardon my humourlessness for a moment though. Do you know where the rice they give out comes from? I am hoping it isn't California-grown, subsidized rice - "rice dumping" is a major problem in terms of longer-term sustainability. After the tsunami all kinds of American rice was trucked in and dropped on the populace "for free" - but they already have rice, lots of rice, and the foreign imports only served to destroy the market, harm local growers, and drive down prices, etc, etc. It's one of those classic externally-based NGO errors...
So here's hoping "Free Rice" is buying their product from small-scale Vietnamese farmers!