The United Nations use the web as a tool against global hunger (AGI site for cooperation http://cooperazione.agi.it/ www.freerice.com
(AGI) - Rome, 12 November. - What does this mean in English 'wizardy'? You can 'choose one of four proposed definitions: if the answer 'right you donate 10 grains of rice to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). The game goes on, and the bowl fills up. Elementary as it is effective, the quiz is open to all on www.freerice.com produced in a month is plenty of food to feed 50,000 people for one day. A pay grains losers are the sponsors that, given the enormous success of the last found electronically by John Breen (the American programmer 'father' of Poverty.com), which has collected more in a month 'a billion grains. A surprising result considering that the day of its debut online on October 7, grains products were just 830.
"Every grain of rice and 'essential to fight hunger in the world, "said Josette Sheeran met, the executive director of the WFP, adding that hunger kills more 'victims of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. " FreeRice ", he continued," and' demonstration of how the Web can help raise funds for the global number one. "