Today’s Topic is: Thérapie Choice Thursday, and I chose FreeRice. If you haven’t heard of FreeRice.com yet, then you are really missing out! In just a few minutes of your time, you can change someone’s life! It’s a simple game that can be so addictive! And when the outcome is feeding a person or a family, you really can’t refute it. I’ve been known to play this game and completely lose track of time.
The idea is simple:
1. pick a category [Art, Language Learning, Math, Chemistry, English, or Geography]and they’re SIMPLE questions…they can get harder as you progress, but the questions you missed come back around so you have a chance to answer it correctly.
2. EVERY correct answer donates 10 grains of rice to feed the hungry.
Sound like it’s too small a donation? Why would my playing make any bit of difference?
Check out the numbers: [since site opened in 2007]:
YEAR 2007 12,255,121,230 grains of rice donated
YEAR 2008 43,942,622,700 grains of rice donated
TOTAL TO DATE [of THIS publication] 72,953,034,840 [yes. that's BILLIONS]
It’s fed MILLIONS in countries around the WORLD!!! What an impact!
Every donation makes a difference. It’s everyone’s little step to help that bans us together to fight world hunger. We have so many niceties in our lives. Even in bad conditions, the majority of us have a way to GET food [shelter, family, etc]. But not everyone in the world does. Rice. Just simple rice. Changes whether someone eats and lives or starves and dies.
No excuse about not having any money to donate. Just playing a FUN and SIMPLE [I promise] game for a few minutes of your time!
From FreeRice.com:
“About FreeRice:
FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. Our partner is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.FreeRice has two goals:
1. Provide education to everyone for free.
2. 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.
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. Thank you.”
“So…What did you do today?” Let your response be, “I fed the hungry.”
BIBLE NUGGET:
“Happy is the generous man, the one who feeds the poor.”
-Proverbs 22:9
