The holidays are upon us and it’s often a time when we think about how we can help others.  Playing the educational, multi-choice game Freerice is one way students can help fight world hunger. For every question you get correct, 10 grains of rice are donated. The game originally began as a vocabulary game, but now has expanded to math, science, languages, geography and the identification of famous artwork.

When the game went live on  October 7, 2007  830 grains of rice were donated that first day. Since then the United Nations World Food Program has donated over 83,853,300,490 grains of rice! That’s amazing!

According to the Freerice website, 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.

So, this holiday season, I hope you will donate some of your time to playing Freerice for a few minutes to help fight world hunger. Go to www.freerice.com