THE RICE BUCKET CHALLENGE

The challenge is giving food to the hungry

    From world famous ice bucket challenge, to a new venture which involves giving rice to people in need. Indians are now putting smile on the faces of the less privileged by giving food out through the

    RICE Bucket Challenge, which was inspired by the ice bucket challenge, that involves putting ice in buckets of water, and pouring it over people's heads, with the video posted on social networking sites to raise money for the Motor Neuron Disease Association. But the Rice bucket challenge involves giving a bucket of rice to people in need of food and taking a picture to share online, through the Twitter hash-tag #RiceBucketChallenge.

    This is aimed at helping country' vast populated with poor and hungry people. The movement's Facebook page has so far gotten more than 50,000 likes. The Indian version which was started by a 38-year-old journalist, Manju Latha Kalanidhi, in the southern city of Hyderabad, who felt the ice bucket challenge was "a little bizarre."She said: "Hunger is a disease anybody would connect with."The challenge has started gaining support, with students of the Indian Institute of Management signing up, and the AirAsia India airline saying its chief executive and senior management will also take part, with many other people giving a tomb up for the initiative.

    India rank’s the world's second-biggest rice consumer, with reserves of 21.2 million tonnes of the grain. This same country has suffered with mass hunger, and last year was ranked 63rd of 78 countries on the International Food Policy Research Institute's global hunger index.

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