FreeRice.com: Improve Your Vocabulary, Feed Hungry People

When you’re bored – or avoiding work – it’s easy to get sucked in to reading gossip, playing games, and mindlessly surfing the internet. But, you can fritter away your time, improve your vocabulary and, amazingly enough, send rice to starving people all over the world instead. The website FreeRice.com donates 20 grains of rice for every vocabulary question you gaet right to the UN World Food Program.

From the FreeRice website:

Do I really make a difference by playing FreeRice?

The rice you donate makes a huge difference to the person who receives it. According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. Though 20 grains of rice may seem like a small amount, it is important to remember that while you are playing, so are thousands of other people at the same time. It is everyone together that makes the difference. Thanks to you, FreeRice has generated enough rice to feed more than two million people since it started in October 2007.

The rice is paid for by the sponsors whose names you see on the bottom of your screen when you enter a correct answer. These sponsors support both learning (free education for everyone) and reducing hunger (free rice for the hungry). We thank these sponsors for their generous participation at FreeRice. For information about how you or your company can sponsor FreeRice, please email freerice.rep@wfp.org.

Give it a try! It’s really addictive. In getting sucked into Free Rice I’ve noticed that words do tend to repeat a bit too often, and as a former English major I find a lot of the words insultingly easy, but there’s a good mix of appropriately obscure words thrown in.

In addition to vocabulary, you can change subjects to instead answer questions about famous paintings, chemical symbols, geography, language learning and even math. Give your brain a workout and help Free Rice feed the hungry – it’s a win-win.

Link [FreeRice.com]

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