FreeRice - Donate Free Rice - Discover Some New Words
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Learn New Words - Donate FreeRice
When you play the game for each word you get right, FreeRice donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme.
By playing the FreeRice word game elementary school children are learning new words as they learn about giving back and donating free rice.
FreeRice is a website committed to the cause of ending hunger around the world. While it is not a registered non-profit organization, it is run entirely for free and makes no profit. All money collected by the site goes to the UN World Food Program to help feed the hungry.
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Word Challenge 1
Here is one word challenge from the FreeRice game.

100 Grains of Rice
More about FreeRice.com
- FreeRice - Main Page
- Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game.
- FreeRice: FAQ
- Frequently asked questions about the FreeRice Program.
- FreeRice: About
- More about the FreeRice program.
- FreeRice: Press
- FreeRice in the Press.
About FreeRice.com
Play a word game.
Learn new words.
Become smarter.
Donate Free Rice.
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More about the World Food Programme
- WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - the UN food aid agency
- WFP works to put hunger at the centre of the international agenda, promoting policies, strategies and operations that directly benefit the poor and hungry.
- Vlog: FreeRice reaches Bangladesh
- A Video Blog from the World Food Programme, showing the first consignment of rice bought with funds raised through the award-winning FreeRice site reaches refugees from Myanmar sheltering in Bangladesh.
- FreeRice internet game emerges as web phenomenon
- Article about the FreeRice.com program on the World Food Programme website.
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FreeRice.com in the News
- BBC NEWS | Europe | Web game provides rice for hungry
- An internet word game raises money to provide rice for the United Nation's World Food Programme.
- FreeRice: Play a Game and Feed the Hungry : TreeHugger
- It's not exactly on-message but it's addictive and it's for a good cause. FreeRice is a computer 'game' that tests your vocabulary and for every word that you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated through the United Nations.
- FreeRice.com - Brush Up Your Vocabulary and Donate | Visit FreeRice.com
- Want to brush up on your vocabulary and at the same time do something good? FreeRice.com is a site that offers you a vocabulary game that gives hungry people rice.
- FreeRice | Gamers With Jobs
- A look at FreeRice, an online vocabulary quiz with from Gamers with Joba.
- The price is rice: LV West fifth-grades feed the needy by learning words
- On May 8, Chris Shell, a fifth-grader at La Vista West Elementary School, won two cups of rice. Shell's winnings were part of the rice challenge. The rice challenge is in association with www.freerice.com
The More You Play,
the More Rice You Donate
Word Challenge 2
Here is another word challenge from the FreeRice game.

580 Grains of Rice
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Word Challenge 3
Here is another word challenge from the FreeRice game.

1000 Grains of Rice
The Latest Blog Posts about FreeRice
- 2013 duty-free rice imports seen lower
- DUTY-FREE RICE imports that will serve as buffer are seen to substantially decrease next year should current production targets be met, an official said yesterday, even as the country gears up to become self-sufficient in producing the staple.
- Green groups hold Facebook Free Rice competition
- In the days following the launch of Northwestern's Green Cup, several sustainability-minded campus groups are hosting a weeklong competition for FreeRice, an online quiz game that helps feed undernourished populations worldwide. Freerice.com hosts a ...
- Gov't wants to complete duty-free rice tender before lean months
- The Agriculture department wants to complete the tender for 500000 metric tons (MT) of duty-free rice imports by the second week of March so shipments can arrive in the country before the lean months, a cabinet official said on Friday.
- Got A Minute? Got 6 Friends? Why Not Play “6 Degrees Of Freerice”?
- It's called 6 Degrees of Freerice and it takes the the WFP's immensely popular online trivia game Freerice to a whole new level. ?Each of us is only six degrees away, or less, from someone who does not know where she will find her next meal,? said ...
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FreeRice Lens is an All4Care Award Recipient
The FreeRice - Donate Free Rice Lens has received the All4Care award.This award is for a Lens or Lensmaster who is doing outstanding work for charity sponsored by Janusz Biela.
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PrincipallyKevin
Feb 10, 2012 @ 8:52 am | delete
- Was going to write this site but saw somebody has already done it, and much better than I could! Great Job!
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meetmarkmakeup
Apr 19, 2011 @ 10:32 am | delete
- This is a great site and makes donating fun! (*Blessed by a SquidAngel)
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poutine
Nov 22, 2008 @ 1:13 pm | delete
- Ii love the free rice site. I visit quite often and
give a lot of rice.
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Danali
Sep 8, 2008 @ 10:37 pm | delete
- Hi I just wanted to let you know that freerice has updated it's site to include other subjects including math, chemistry, basic french, and famous paintings. It is a very cool new feature that you might want to check out and add when you have the time.
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story3girl
Jul 2, 2008 @ 2:20 pm | delete
- I LOVE the freerice page. I have a list of other sites that let you click to donate for free on my lens http://www.squidoo.com/clicktodonate .
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