Saving the World… On Your Computer!

Has anyone ever heard of FreeRice.com? I learned about it yesterday in my Spanish class. It’s a website where you can practice/test your knowledge in subjects such as Algebra, Art History, World Geography, Science, and four different languages! For every question you answer right, the website has sponsors who will donate 20 grains of rice to hungry nations. You can see how much rice you donate on the right- it fills up in a bowl. Now, 20 grains of rice may seem like not too much- only about a half-palmful. But yesterday, 159,032,620 grains of rice were donated— and over 59 million grains were donated since the website opened in October of 2007. That’s about 7,000 people fed per day.

Another great site is GoodSearch.com– run by Yahoo. Also a “click-to-donate” site, GoodSearch is a search engine. Before you start, you can choose your charity (I chose UMCOR) to donate to. For every search, GoodSearch donates 1 cent to that charity. Once again- this may not seem like much, but the average person donates $7,300 per year!!!

So, the next time you need to practice your French, or find information for a research project, why not try these websites? You’re getting your homework done, and saving the world and the same time!