No, this is not about a newly formed Rice Liberation Movement or a deal at the local Chinese restaurant. FreeRice.com is a website that allows you to put some rice where your mouth is! Yeah, that does sound a lot like eating but, really, this is even better. You play a simple (and highly addictive) word game, expand your vocabulary (for fun and bragging rights!) and, oh yeah, get to help feed the world through the World Food Programme.
Every right answer you get automatically donates ten grains of rice to the World Food Programme. That may not sound like a lot but since its inception, the site has donated almost 100 billion grains of rice and adds millions more every single day all based on, in my opinion, people wanting to beat their previous score (level 49, you haunt me so!) and help the world a little bit.
If vocabulary enhancement isn’t your cup of rice, there’s a subject tab at the top of the page so you can play games ranging from chemical symbol recognition, to basic math, to geography, to art identification. So, geek out, click away and help feed the world’s most needy!