'FreeRice' – the online game and toolbar combatting world hunger

As online games go, this one not only fills players’ free time, it fills empty stomachs too.

FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) featuring a game in which users match selected words to their dictionary definitions.  For each answer selected correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated to the world’s hungry through the WFP.

The website has two named goals:

1. Provide education to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

FreeRice has also created a new internet browser search toolbar that donates grains to those in need each time you search the web.  For now, the toolbar is only usable on Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

The toolbar is free to download and gives users access to the latest news from the WFP and stories about those being aided by the FreeRice program, among other features.

The FreeRice toolbar homepage offers answers to Frequently Asked Questions and a brief video explaining how the toolbar works.

Happy gaming and donating, readers.

Posted by Sara Chupein.