37 billion grains of rice is a fair bit. Especially when you consider one bowl of the stuff contains about 3 thousand little grains – so that 37 billion works out at somewhere around 125 million individual servings. And, what’s more, all those bowls were donated by people as lazy as you. 

FreeRice works through sponsorship banners, which refresh every time you make a right guess. Refreshing the banners sends off a few cents to the website, who in turn convert the money through the UN World Food Program into mountains of delicious rice. 

 

Not only do you get the lazy satisfaction of being charitable without really moving – you also get to build up your ownvocabulary, which comes in handy when you really want to describe an albatross but don’t want to use the phrase “large-winged” (try “macropterous” instead!). 
 

 

To date FreeRice has donated over 37 billion grains of rice, which has fed people in Cambodia, Uganda, Nepal, and – recently – post-cyclone Burma. To date, FreeRice has also taught me that “periphrasis” is a synonym of “circumlocution”. So it’s win-win.

 

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