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FREE RICE: INGLESE E BENEFICENZA IN UN CLICK
Volete migliorare il vostro inglese e contemporaneamente aiutare a combattere la fame nel mondo? Allora visitate il sito FreeRice e testate la vostra conoscenza dei vocaboli inglesi. Per ogni parola che comparirà (random) sul sito dovrete scegliere il sinonimo o il significato corretto tra cinque alternative proposte. Ogni parola indovinata equivale a 10 chicchi di riso devoluti a popolazioni che soffrono la fame, 5 parole = 50 chicchi e così via. Perciò più giocate e più offrirete riso (quando si sbaglia un vocabolo il sistema dovrebbe automaticamente abbassare il livello di difficoltà).
Il riso dato in beneficienza è finanziato dalle aziende sponsor che compaiono con il loro banner nella parte inferiore della pagina e sarà poi distribuito dal Programma Alimentare Mondiale (World Food Program) delle Nazioni Unite che collabora con 75 paesi del mondo.
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The Kingdom pledges $500M to WFP
Saudi Arabia responds to a UN World Food Program appeal, providing $500 million in aid to cover a shortfall offset by the food crisis.
"The World Food Programme has met its extraordinary call for 755 million dollars to compensate for the increased costs of food and fuel with a 500 million dollar donation from The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," said a WFP statement in reference to its March appeal.
The WFP, which operates in 78 countries and helps feed an estimated 73 million people, had warned that it would have to curtail its program to provide food aid to the world's hungriest people because of the soaring food and energy prices.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised Riyadh over its generosity, calling it 'unprecedented in size'. "It comes not a moment too soon, given the needs of millions of people dependent on food rations."
"We turned to the world to help the hungry and the world has been generous," said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran.
The Saudi pledge is more than half of the total $960 million pledged to the WFP by 32 countries. The UN agency has an approved budget of $2.9 billion for 2008, which has proved inadequate as prices for rice, wheat, soybeans and other crops have jumped by an average of 40 percent since late 2007. Saudi Arabia responds to a UN World Food Program appeal, providing $500 million in aid to cover a shortfall offset by the food crisis.... more -
Ethiopia: six million children at risk of hunger
Six million children in Ethiopia are at risk of acute malnutrition following the failure of rains, the UN children's agency, Unicef, has warned.
More than 60,000 children in two Ethiopian regions require immediate specialist feeding just to survive, Unicef says.
The situation is expected to worsen in the next few months as crops fail. Aid agencies in Ethiopia say they are short of funds as donors concentrate on the emergencies in China and Burma.
The WFP estimates it needs to raise $147m (£75m) to tackle Ethiopia's needs. The UN estimates it currently has a shortfall of 180,000 tonnes of food - and presently has no promises to meet this target.
Six million children in Ethiopia are at risk of acute malnutrition following the failure of rains, the UN children's agency, Unicef, h... more -
Burma cyclone: up to 50,000 dead and millions homeless, but still no call for aid
Burma was given two days warning of cyclone
Aid workers fear the repressive junta is concealing a huge loss of life in remote reaches of the once-green Irrawaddy delta
Burma was given two days warning of cyclone ... more
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