freerice.com

I'm sure most of you, if not all, have at the very least heard of Freerice.com, if not been to the website. This website was the first thing that came into my mind when I saw the blog prompt for a very simple reason - they got straight to the point. For those of you who don't know much or really anything about Freerice.com, here is some history. When this website started in 2007, it asked users vocabulary questions that would progressively got tougher with the amount of answers the user got correct. In exchange for each correct answer, rice was donated to the World Food Programme. The website was donated to the United Nations World Food Programme in March of 2009 and they launched an updated version of the website last month, expanding the question asking to other subject areas including math, chemistry, and art.

I chose Freerice.com because there values are very clear and simple. This website was founded on two main values: promoting education and helping others. Freerice.com is promoting education by providing a form of free education to everyone and anyone willing to accept it. The website started out by helping users expand their vocabularies and even adjusted the word difficulty based on the level of the user. Freerice.com has shown its commitment to free education by expanding the choices on their website to include other subjects. They are also helping people around the world by trying to end world hunger by providing free rice to those who need it.

Clearly, educating people and ending world hunger are two things that Freerice.com is PASSIONATE about. Their website is based on a very simple concept, but it works. This focus on their passions has allowed Freerice.com to be extremely successful, donating over 83,000,000,000 grains of rice to date! Now, if you haven't picked up on this yet, you should use one of my many links to Freerice.com, visit the website, and earn some free rice while your procrastinate through your studies.

Quote of the week:
"Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious."
-Dr. E. Gordon Gee