Visit FreeRice, and the following things will occur:
- You will help fight world hunger.
- You will improve your vocabulary.
- You will not be bored.
As the sister site of Poverty.com, FreeRice strives to solve world hunger through the power of Internet programming. Visitors of the site play a fun, definition-based word game; for every right answer, 20 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. The game itself has 60 levels of difficulty, and people are welcome to play for as long as they want.
From the FreeRice FAQ:
The UN World Food Program works around the globe and FreeRice donations are made with no restrictions. This freedom of use allows WFP to apply the donations to countries that need it most, often those that don’t make the headlines in the news, yet where chronic hunger continues unchecked. Often WFP is able to purchase the rice in the very countries where the beneficiaries are located, cutting down on the transport time to reach the hungry and helping to stimulate local economies at the same time.
Click here to watch the first consignment of rice being distributed amongst refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh.