Free Rice - play and help the starving - on FreeRice.com

FreeRice is a charity website where users play a vocabulary game in order to raise money to fight world hunger.
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"What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does . . . the totals have grown exponentially."

- Washington Post


"Addictive, yes. But . . . each correct answer results in the donation of rice to help feed the hungry around the globe. Perhaps that qualifies the game as a good addiction . . . one with redeeming qualities, something that's, oh, didactic and edifying."

- Kansas City Star

"People from all walks of life and from around the globe have written in to express their appreciation for the game . . . Secretaries admit to playing it during boring business meetings."

- Christian Science Monitor

"FreeRice.com is one of the most ingenious websites of 2007. In the best spirit of the Internet, it offers education, entertainment and a way to change the world ― all for free."

- Los Angeles Times


"Web game provides rice for hungry . . . FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1 billion grains of rice [by November 9]."

- BBC News


"Freerice.com is an international, viral sensation. Folks from Thailand to Germany and India are just as enthusiastic . . . improving thousands of lives, all with a simple, collective, click of a mouse."

- CBS Evening News

"Every grain of rice is essential in the fight against hunger . . . FreeRice really hits home how the Web can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for the world's number one emergency."

- UN World Food Program

"A teacher of fourth and fifth graders on the Yurok Indian reservation in Klamath, CA, . . . emailed the WFP. 'My students absolutely LOVE the FreeRice site. Almost daily they earn several thousand grains of rice!' she wrote. 'You cannot imagine the joy in my heart when I look out and see 25 kids doing vocabulary work and enjoying it.'"

- School Library Journal

"Feeling guilty about wasting time on computer solitaire? Join the growing guilt-free multitude at FreeRice.com, an online game with redeeming social value."

- USA Today

"The Web site offers a greater gift, the gift of awareness about world hunger."

- NPR National Public Radio

"What type of computer game could get kids excited about learning vocabulary words? One that also helps feed hungry people around the world!"

- Scholastic News Magazine

"'It's fantastic,' says the World Food Program's Bangladesh director. Adds a 32-year-old widow living in a refugee camp with her 8-year-old daughter, 'I depend on the rice.'"

- People Magazine

"FreeRice is a triumph of converting passivity into engagement."

- New York Times Magazine

"A simple way to bring kids to the Internet for a good reason, a way to feed their minds and . . . to feed a whole lot of people . . . helping fight world hunger, one grain of rice at a time. "

- NBC Evening News

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[ANGLEBOOT]

I would play if it were for farming tools. Teach them to grow food not beg for it.

[spreadkaioo]

kaioo is similar to freerice. It is a social network where all advertising money is donated. And there YOU decide what is done with the money.

[hubjubian69]

i like rice. and giving it for free is even better

[inuboy330]

the ads on the bottom of the page do everytime an ad pops up they give money to them and then they buys the rice you can also just donate money with your choice of where it goes

[M34sketosnakepit]

I read about it in a book when was at English school..I thought it just an unreal story for a book but now I am starting playing this game..Needless to say it was a good idea of whoever made this site

[777palena]

@ANGLEBOOT Yes but if you are starving now! a shovel will not feed you, so to me it's bad karma not to act and share the resourses which belong to everyone, Share and Save the World.. says Maitreya

[scoreslam]

@ninjaninja246 yeah

[scoreslam]

@sunnillal yeah he should do it

[sunnillal]

@uyenst this is soooo much more important. maybe justin bieber should sponsor free frice, then a million teenage girls will support it ;) "HI IM JUSTIN BIEBER AND I LIKE VOCABULARY AND SAVING THE WORLD!"

done.

[RzXVeRSaTiiLe]

Im hispanic i eat 44560800 grains of rice a day

[Thantophobia1]

Join my group, Owned.  I've donated 151,940 grains of rice ALONE. Owned.

[wolftreetree]

@ANGLEBOOT Only takes a few minutes to earn 2500 grains of rice (enough to give a serving I figure). Who knows maybe in will help you spell a word correctly just when you need to.