An online internet vocabulary game “FreeRice” at freerice.com is generating rice stocks to feed the poor people around the world. About 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. Any sensible person can realize that how sad it could be to a mother or father watching a loved child die in their arms from hunger. I have donated 30 grains of rice that you are seeing in the screenshot shown below. I clicked three correct answers and this resulted 30 rice grains to a hungry person. You can also do it by playing this online game. While someone in need of food will give his/her blessings to you, your vocabulary will simultaneously improve. The rice you donate is more precious than anything in the world. You can save thousands of people by just playing the game as your each click for a correct answer the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice. It has already generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for a day. Companies advertising on the website provide the money to the UN’s World Food Program to buy and distribute the rice. The game was launched on October 7, 2007 and since then has generated 3,531,907,16 grains of rice, to feed the poor people who can not afford to buy enough food to feed themselves and their dependents as per the statistics provided by the site.

Benefits of playing “FreeRice game” :

• You are able to formulate your ideas better, write better papers, emails and business letters

• You can speak more precisely and persuasively and comprehend more of what you read

• You can read faster because you comprehend better and get better grades in high school, college and graduate school and perform better at job interviews and conferences

• Hence, you can score higher on tests like the SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT

• If you are in business:

• You can sell yourself, your services, and your products better and can be more effective and successful at your job

Levels of game (Difficulty levels):

It has varying degrees of difficulty levels (50 difficulty levels) and difficult to most of people to reach 50th level. FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. It gives you words at different levels of difficulty based on your performance. When you give three correct answers in a row it takes you to a harder level.

Distribution of rice to the hungry people:

The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The World Food Program is the world’s largest food aid agency, working with over 1,000 other organizations in over 75 countries. In addition to providing food, the World Food Program helps hungry people to become self-reliant so that they escape hunger for good. Wherever possible, the World Food Program buys food locally to support local farmers and the local economy.