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The Journey of a Thousand Grains of Rice Begins With a Single Word

According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children.

Play the FreeRice vocabulary game and help ease global suffering–for each correct answer the site's sponsors donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to hungry people around the world.

You can set your computer to remember your vocabulary level and donation total so that each time you return to FreeRice, you pick up from where you left off. To do this go to the Options page and click the bottom circle below and then click Set Options.

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."–Confucius

Bringing in the New

“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness.”–Anon