The online game FreeRice tests your vocabulary and donates 10 grains of rice for every correct answer you get. When you play the game, money generated by advertisements is used to buy rice. By playing, you actually help feed hungry people. Donated rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). Read more about www.freerice.com in this article:
Web Game Provides Rice For Hungry
BBC News
Nov. 9, 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 on Friday.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7088447.stm
Sunday, November 11, 2007
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