Steve Kinney

FreeRice is a program run by the United Nations World Food Program and sponsored by pay-per-click advertising. FreeRice is a web-based vocabulary game. A word is shown and you select from one of four potential synonyms. If you pick the correct synonym, the United Nations World Food Program donates twenty grams of rice to a poor family. Twenty grains doesn’t sound like much, but it adds up. The level of difficulty changes based on the number of questions you have gotten right — or wrong, as the case may be.

Will the rice I donate make a difference?

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. To a mother or father watching a loved child die in their arms from hunger, the rice you donate is more precious than anything in the world.

Head over to FreeRice.com.

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