Learning Words, Donating Rice (2/2)

Internet businessman John Breen created FreeRice. Since October, five hundred seventy metric tons of rice have been donated, enough to feed about a million and a half people for one day.The game is said to be especially popular with college students and young people who visit social networking sites.

Jennifer Parmelee is a World Food Program spokeswoman in Washington. She says cash donations help the agency to buy food locally and transport it quickly to where it is needed.

For example, with donations from the site, rice for Nepal was recently bought in the area at half the world market price. Bangladesh, Cambodia and Uganda also have received food through FreeRice.

Over the last nine months, though, the cost to secure food aid has increased fifty-five percent. Jennifer Parmelee says this is the biggest crisis the World Food Program has faced in its forty-five year history. She says creative projects like FreeRice are badly needed right now.

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网络运营商约翰•韦恩创创建FreeRice. 自（去年）10月开始，已经捐献了570吨大米，这足够供应150万人一天的粮食。据说，该活动在大学生和访问社区交流网站的年轻人中尤其受欢迎。

联合国粮食计划署华盛顿发言人詹妮弗•帕米莉说，现金捐助帮助他们在当地购买粮食并可以迅速的运输到需要的地方。

比如，通过网站捐赠，最近为尼泊尔提供的粮食在当地可以用世界粮食市场上一半的价格买到。孟加拉、柬埔寨和乌干达也可以通过FreeRice获得粮食。

在过去的九个月中，虽然为保证粮食救助的成本已经增加了55%，但詹妮弗•帕米莉说，这仍是粮食计划署45年中面临的最大的一次危机。他说，急需更多像FreeRice这样的创意性项目。





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