What’s more fun than playing a game?
Playing a game that matters…
http://www.freerice.com/ is a multiple choice website which quizzes your general knowledge.
People spend hours wasting their time on games similar to this one, but the difference here is…
When you answer correctly on FreeRice.com a Sponsor pays for a donation of Rice to the UN World Food Programme.
The more you play, the more you get correct, the more rice gets donated.
According to FreeRice’s FAQ section, FreeRice has:
Fed 27,000 Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh.
Provided take-home rations of four kilograms of rice for two months to 13,500 pregnant and nursing women in Cambodia.
Fed 66,000 school children in Uganda for a week.
Fed over 108,000 Bhutanese refugees for three days in Nepal.
Fed 41,000 children for 8 days in Bhutan.
Fed 750,000 cyclone affected people for 3 days in Myanmar.
The website defaults to English Vocabulary words, but you can click on Subjects at the top of the page to change it to something more to your liking, such as: Famous Paintings, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
If you are going to burn time on the internet doing something similar, why not do it here? I guarantee if you spend an hour at this website you’ll feel a lot better than you would if you spent an hour at another website.
www.freerice.com
