FreeRice

[Clayton]

FreeRice is one of those non-profit organisations that give food to needy countries all around the world based on donations. Now normally I wouldn't post this, but they do things a little bit differently. They take money that they earn from adds to buy the rice that they send across the world. Also, while you're participating, you might even find you'll learn something you didn't know before. Post your Vocab Scores after a little while to compare with everyone else if you want (You'll understand if you partake.)

My highest Vocab score was 41. I'm proud of myself

[Nick]

lol i only got 20 but i donated 1100 grains of rice!!
this is a great program thanks for that Clayton

[Clayton]

For future reference it wasn't me that found this, it was Saad, I'm just passing it on.

[Tony]

This has surfaced on reddit a while back, and was quickly determined to be a scam.

At commodity prices, rice goes for something like $250 per metric tonne

The density of rice itself varies. 35,000 rice grains per kilogram seems to be in the right order of magnitude.

So an 1100 grain donation is 31 grams of rice. Which costs $0.008 -- less than a cent.

[Zampano]

I got 36, but then I stopped trying. Donated 130 grains.