Comments for Is FreeRice.com making $150k each day in profits?

I don't see the problem. What if he does make a profit? I get to do good while I have fun and expand my mind...all good things. The advertisers presumably believe they're getting value for their ad dollars...good thing. They fund rice purchases with those ad purchases...good thing. Frankly the only 'person' who stands to lose are the advertisers if their 'air-time' isn't worth what they pay, but that should be self-correcting fairly quickly.

Where is the ill if this fellow makes a handsome profit too? He came up with a creative innovative way to take people's desire to spend time on quizzes, and make it a net gain for them and for starving people in the world. I say kuddos.

Im only a 14year old kid bt if this guy gets about 149k a day,.. he should buy donate another 100k from his profits coz gtn 149k a day iz alot, well dats wt i wud do

But you think this guy making this ''nice gesture'' wud have thought about donating a bit more? wudnt ya?

I could care less how much money he makes, even if what he donates is only 1% of the income. Why? Because as long as he's actually following through with his part it doesn't matter. It it helps the world, good for him, if he makes a profit while at it, ven better, because everyone wins! Afterall you don't see many people (especially the people posting here) making attempts at solving world hunger (that includes my self-_-), so lay off him.

As for me, I did over 500 hundred questions=) Level 55 rocks!

I see your point. Money is always the instigator, no shock there- but as long as someone needy is being fed....well..

unbelievable, a man creates a website that not only educates children, but helps world hunger. and all you can think of is the profit that is made. well he should get profit, he created it. your just jealous that you did not think of it first. get a real job or some serious help.

http://www.wfp.org/english/?ModuleID=137&Key=2695 - according to this he donated $100K in a first month. It is a lot of money even if he makes more and keeps some for himself, but I do wish it would be more transparent.

http://www.wfp.org/english/?ModuleID=137&Key=2695 - according to this he donated $100K in a first month. It is a lot of money even if he makes more and keeps some for himself, but I do wish it would be more transparent.

I think that Freerice is a great site.

I live in the same town as the creater. Our local paper, The Herald Time printed the following article. Please read the last sentence:
"Breen, who makes no money from the site, would like it to eventually stop world hunger."



"The world changes so fast.

Just a couple of generations ago, middle-class American kids who didn’t eat their peas were chided about cleaning their plates. “Think of those poor, starving children in China,” Mom might say, trying to lay on a weighty enough guilt trip to force those veggies down your throat.

China today is a mega-muscled giant. The worry no longer is its starving kids but whether it’ll gobble up the rest of the world in one big gulp.

Not that you can’t find hunger there, or for that matter, just down the road in Bloomington, or in Bedford or Spencer.

World hunger has in fact eased, at least partly because of the surging growth and modernization of China and India, two megastates careening at high speed into the modern world, with its monied middle class and better earning potential for the masses.

The numbers show, though, that in other regions, the picture is bleak, with one person somewhere dying every five seconds of hunger or hunger related illnesses. That’s awful.

And it’s not even something you have to think about to help out, thanks to Bloomington resident John Breen and his freerice.com Web site.

Go there to strengthen your vocab. Play his little game. It’s painless and it’s free, and for word wonks it’s fun to see how far you can get before you’re stumped.

Each correct word equals 20 grains of rice. It gets harder as you go through levels — there are 55 of those and few get beyond the 48th.

Each time a word changes, an ad pops up along the bottom. Those ads pay for the rice. Since start-up last October, they’ve bought enough rice to feed 700,000 people for a day.

Breen, who makes no money from the site, would like it to eventually stop world hunger. That’s a perhaps impossibly tall order. But so what? Have a go, anyway, at www.freerice.com. Every grain of rice helps. "