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#11 /* 11 months, 4 days ago */
I should of added my source for the quote


http://www.wfp.org/english/?ModuleID=137&Key=2686
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#12 /* 11 months, 3 days ago */
1) I like the "don't be a lemon" line. Made me want to reply
2) I've always thought that the "click this link to make .1 cents" sites were just not worth it in terms of time/value generated. But I've been back on the freerice site a few times, mainly to try to get higher vocab levels... =)
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Gravatar Jason Shen Anonymous User
#13 /* 11 months, 3 days ago */
Whatever the math, the question of transparency seems relevant. Why would anybody deal through a charity that is not registered and where application of funds is not transparent? Is there any advantage to donors or recipients?

And well... should you care? Of course. Half the BS that seems to go on these days is because people don't. Maybe most of these digital inquisitions amount to naught but sometimes one actually notices something worth pointing out. You may get bruised a bit for your efforts but it's still better than being part of the problem.
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Gravatar Anne Anonymous User
#14 /* 11 months, 3 days ago */
It is too bad that people don't realize that rice is the #1 consumer of the world's clean water. While it is a staple of the diet of countless cultures, it hurts the our survival in the long term.
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Gravatar Cas Anonymous User
#15 /* 11 months, 3 days ago */
Apart from the accountability of charities issue, we should be analyzing the impact of food aid in general as well. Unless this is for emergency humanitarian relief, food aid is generally destructive, undercutting farmers through the suppression of market prices due to surplus of food on the market. World hunger is not a matter of lack of food but a lack of entitlement to food. We need more grass roots responses to world hunger to link the inability of people to pay for food due to lack of educational and employment opportunities. Issues of human development are tied in with security and human security for that matter. So don't just think that FreeRice may be the only "charity" out there apparently acting unscrupulously. Look at the undemocratic nature of the WTO, IMF, World Bank etc...as international regimes apparently acting in the interests of these less developed countries. The way we are dealing with hunger and development is leading to impoverishment and not at just the hands of a few bad eggs.
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Gravatar Alex Normal User
#16 /* 11 months, 3 days ago */
As someone who both plays with FreeRice as a vocabulary game, and also donates to "charities", I appreciate the questions raised. It would be nice if our intentions to do some good were actualized by the results, however there is a wide variation in who and what is being benefited. An agency like AmericaCares advertises and shows in its figures that only 2% is used for overhead, whereas there are other charities where less than 50% of the contribution goes to the intended cause. I would hope that this particular charity is operated in a honest and beneficial way, but without public accountability, it has the danger of becoming, in essence, just another profit making business, and hence a scam.
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Gravatar Andrew Elliott Anonymous User
#17 /* 11 months, 3 days ago */
You know what people... I'd be more interested in how the UN is distributing this, and if it is in fact getting to the most needy. Also, how much are they scraping off the top to finance their New World Order ???
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Gravatar Richie Normal User
#18 /* 11 months, 3 days ago */
Check out GuideStar.org - they track charities based on their effectiveness.

I wholly support the FreeRice concept - good for him. Considering the additional overhead of a non-profit and the horrifying examples elsewhere (Ethos water at Starbucks - $1.80/bottle, gives $0.05/bottle to its cause.) Transparency on something like FreeRice, which is a clever (and now at least marginally profitable) concept, would never be enough to appease the loud voices who'd take issue with making -any money at all- by doing something socially responsible, which would further deter anyone from creating similar clever services. The net benefit is very positive.
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#19 /* 11 months, 2 days ago */
Wow, I'm amazed that anybody would have an issue with this idea. You're acting as if he's not sending the rice or somehow tricking people into paying money for something they're not getting. People play the word game: win. People get food: win. As long as everybody gets what they expect (to play a word game and to get food) then what's the problem if the facilitator makes a profit?

If somebody finds an innovative way to truly help people (and nobody gets hurt in the process) I say get behind that idea. People are making lots of money doing far less helpful things.
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Gravatar Taxi Anonymous User
#20 /* 11 months, 2 days ago */
Free Rice states they have given away 1,712,371,750 grains of rice as of 11/13/07. There are about 50,000 grains of rice in a kilo and 20 kilos to a sack so freerice.com has given away about 1,712 sacks of rice or 34247.43 kg of rice. now according to the New York Times futures 1 CWT (45.359237 kg) of rice = $ 12.90
free rice to-date has given away a whopping $9739.84
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Gravatar Evan Meyer Anonymous User
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