FreeRice

FreeRice (http://freerice.com/) is a wonderful charity that has 2 goals in mind:  educating people around the world for free while providing free rice to people in need....I find it a great way to pass a few minutes on your work break, or the half hour you'll spend at the library on lunch.

FreeRice has a custom database containing knowledge questions at varying levels of difficulty. There are levels appropriate for beginners and levels that will challenge the most scholarly professors. In between are levels suitable for students of all ages, business people, homemakers, doctors, truck drivers, retired people. Everyone!

FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level. It starts by giving you questions of increasing difficulty and then, based on how you do, assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. When you get a question wrong, you go to an easier level. When you get three questions in a row right, you go to a harder level. This one-to-three ratio is best for keeping you at the "outer fringe" of your skills, where learning can take place.

FreeRice does not make any money from this. FreeRice is a website committed to the cause of ending hunger around the world. It is run entirely for free and at no profit. All money (100%) raised by the site goes to the UN World Food Programme to help feed the hungry.

The UN World Food Programme works around the globe and FreeRice donations are made with no restrictions. This freedom of use allows them to apply the donations to countries that need it most, often those that don't make the headlines in the news, yet where chronic hunger continues unchecked.  Often World Food Programme is able to purchase the rice in the very countries where the beneficiaries are located, cutting down on the transport time to reach the hungry and helping to stimulate local economies at the same time.

Here are some examples of where FreeRice rice has been distributed:

•  In Bangladesh, to feed 27,000 refugees from Myanmar for two weeks. Watch FreeRice being distributed in Bangladesh.

•  In Cambodia, to provide take-home rations of four kilograms of rice for two months to 13,500 pregnant and nursing women.

•  In Uganda, to feed 66,000 school children for a week.

•  In Nepal, to feed over 108,000 Bhutanese refugees for three days.

•  In Bhutan, to feed 41,000 children for 8 days.

•  In Myanmar, to feed 750,000 cyclone affected people for 3 days.

So, if you find you have a few minutes, please click above and play FreeRice to help feed someone who would not have food otherwise today.

<3 and peace, Helena