Play Trivia, Have Fun Learning, and Help Feed the Hungry While You Do!
What if you could change the world and help feed the hungry while having fun learning by playing a game? You can and we’re going to tell you how.
FreeRice.com is an educational game that donates rice to the World Food Programme (WFP) every time you answer a question correctly. The game is simple to play: just choose the correct answer to a multiple-choice question about a variety of topics, such as math, science, and geography.
For every question you answer correctly, FreeRice.com donates 10 grains of rice to the WFP. The WFP is a United Nations agency that works to fight hunger and malnutrition around the world. It provides food assistance to people in need in over 80 countries.
FreeRice.com has donated over 2.4 billion grains of rice since it was launched in 2007. This is enough to feed over 1 million people for one day.
I started with the category of English vocabulary and I sailed through the first few minutes, but the words get harder and harder and the game more challenging as you play.
Did you know that caprine means goat-like? Bovine means cow-like, equine means horse-like, and porcine means pig-like, and caprine means goat-like. Meanycine means EB-like.
And they continue to get harder, for instance off the top of your head do you know what these words mean?
agrestic
hebetate
quoin
fulgurous
Anyway, out of 65 vocabulary words, I got 61 of them correct and thus 610 grains of rice were donated to those in need. So today, I did a little to help feed a hungry person somewhere in this world – and I learned some new words too.
You can choose from dozens of categories
If English vocabulary is not your forte, there are dozens of other categories to choose from. You can change categories by clicking this icon in the top-left corner of Freerice.com.
Other trivia categories are:
Arts & Culture
9 Categories
History & Geography
8 Categories
Food & Sustainability
7 Categories
Ambassdors for Change
4 Categories
English
5 Categories
Language Learning
11 Categories
Japanese
3 Categories
Chinese
3 Categories
Math
4 Categories
Science
10 Categories
Social Sciences
2 Categories
We’re going go out on a limb here and say some of these categories will challenge even the smartest among you. Besides, what could be better than learning while having fun – and helping others too?
Before you go off to play Freerice, we’re going to let the site’s developers tell you more about the good work they do…
In a world of plenty, hunger should be a thing of the past
Across the globe, up to 828 million people do not have enough food and 49 million people are facing emergency levels of hunger. From reducing our food waste to ensuring access to nutritious food for everyone, we have a lot of work to do. At WFP, we believe that food is a human right and that everyone deserves to live in a #ZeroHunger world. Let’s work together to fill everyone’s plate.
Meet Freerice
Freerice is an educational trivia game that helps you get smarter while making a difference for people around the world. Every question you answer correctly raises 10 grains of rice for the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its work saving and changing lives around the world…
OK, that should be enough to encourage you to visit this Cloudeight site pick… Freerice.com.
In a world of plenty…no one should be hungry. So do your part. Have fun, learn, and help feed a hungry person today.