FreeRice has two goals: Provide education to everyone for free. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
When you go online to play the award-winning game FreeRice you are currently helping feed school children in Niger. This is a country in the Sahel region of Africa where the UN World Food Programme says, “2.5 million people are in a permanent state of food insecurity, unable to meet basic food requirements even under normal conditions.”
Millions of others also suffer from hunger during different periods of the year, between harvests for example. With such extreme hunger and poverty parents may withdraw their children from school, unless there is the incentive of food.
Here is an excerpt of a report from the World Food Programme:
The school feeding programme successfully encourages enrollment and attendance of children, and reduces drop-out rates, in primary schools in structurally vulnerable areas of Niger through the provision of cooked meals. In order to address the gender gap in enrollment and reduce drop-out rates, WFP provides a dry, take-home family ration to girls enrolled and attending the final years of primary school. At the request of the Government, WFP and UNICEF are working to expand in nomadic areas.”
By playing FreeRice you are helping children get food and education. With the SAT tests coming up in June, millions of high school students in the U.S. could actually prepare for this test and help Niger by using the FreeRice SAT prep section.
Start playing at FreeRice.com.
Author William Lambers 