Pledge “helpendhunger”
"I will donate 20.000 grains of rice to help end hunger but only if 100 other people will do the same."
— Laura, a13 year-old wishing to change the world
Deadline to sign up by: 19th November 2009
19 people signed up, 81 more were needed
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OK, you probably think I´m crazy... "donate 20.000 grains of rice" does seem completly impossible. At least that´s what I thought until a few mintues ago when I bumped into this site: http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Basicly this is a site that offers you to take quizzes in art, chemistry, english, geography, and math. The quizzes are really great and fun to play. But the BEST part of these quizzes is that for each answer you get right, you donate 10 grains of rice to the hungry people.Ok, not you, but the site. My point is that I spent 10-15 minutes playing a geography quiz(identify the countries on the map), I had fun,I learned a lot AND I DONATED 1120 grains of rice to the hungry people. Now how cool is that???
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Laura, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Lisa
- hugh
- Stjepan
- David
- Govert
- Chris McCabe
- Meadow
- StarryLou
- Bea
- Christopher Bell
- stardust
- Claire Bradshaw
- Zoe Mercer
- Simon B.
- Jessica
- Vicki Eley
- Abigail Retuya
- 2 people who did not want to give their names
Comments on this pledge
You'd have slightly fewer for long grain brown, as each grain retains its bran layer. Short grain rice is 3-4 times shorter, so you'd have 3-4 times as many in a pound.
You could give a five-pound bag of rice to your favorite charity or your church for about $5. That's about 145,000 grains, or 14,500 correct answers on that web page. Or just go to the donation link, which is obviously what they're hoping you'll do when you get sick of seeing the banner ads.