Vocabulary game gives rice to the hungry

Saturday, November 10, 2007

An internet word game has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has said. The game, FreeRice, tests the vocabulary of participants. For each click on a correct answer, the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice. Companies advertising on the website provide the money to the WFP to buy and distribute the rice.

FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1bn grains of rice, that is enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the WFP said.

Go check it out and help feed people who are starving.

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