Free Rice.com

Everyone here at Walsh knows of the devastating earthquake that hit the country of Haiti, and many of you joined in and contributed to the fund raising efforts that the Student Council and Guidance Department led earlier this month. We all are proud to know that as a group we collected $2000 that has been donated to the Haitian Health Foundation.
http://www.haitianhealthfoundation.org/

Some of you might be interested in continuing to help out this poor country that has a long ways to go toward recovering. The site http://www.freerice.com/ is a wonderful site that provides vocabulary, math, language, and geography game-quizzes that you can participate in. The best thing is, for every correct answer that you get in these game-quizzes, ten grains of rice will be donated to poor countries of the world. Right now most all of the donation efforts of this site are going to Haiti...so, that's how you can continue to help out. These game-quizzes are geared so that if you get a wrong answer it doesn't take away any of the rice that you have gained. They show you the correct answer and then will bring it up again later to see if you have learned it.

The rice is donated through the United Nations World Food Programme. The site doesn't ask you to sign in/log-in, or ask for any personal information. It just knows when people are playing and records totals for you, then adds it to their daily totals, which you can check out by clicking on "Totals" at the top of the page. The month of January 2010 the total came to - 1,451,006,720 grains of rice, and I know some Walsh students contributed about 15,000 to that number!

Some Walsh students sit down every weekend and play until they've reached 1000 grains of rice. One rainy weekend a couple of students reported that they just couldn't stop playing and reached over 100,000!

You can learn lots more by going to the Frequently Asked Questions/FAQs....section at the top of the site.
(aha!...so, that's what FAQs means?!)

Free rice.com.....give it a try.
Post your totals in the "Comments" below...let's see how we all do this week.

You can use your computer for some good and....you might even get a little bit smarter!