Category: Language Resources

Studying and alleviating world hunger?  The two don’t often go hand in hand, but if you are looking to brush up on your Spanish before (or after!) your Global Works trip, study for your geography test, or prepare for the SATs, check out FreeRice.  It’s a website that asks you multiple choice questions on a subject of your choosing and donates 10 grains of rice for every correct answer.  Although 10 grains of rice may seem like a small amount, it is important to remember that while you are playing, so are thousands of other people at the same time. It is everyone together that makes the difference.  Look at it this way: say you are earning about 100 grains of rice per minute.  In 10 minutes, you will have donated 1,000 grains  In 20, 2000!  Not too many other websites help you do good while you are wasting time!  Every little thing you do really adds up.  Since it began in October 2007, FreeRice has generated enough rice to feed millions of people; 76,499,979,710 grains to be exact.  After you play, you can feel good knowing that somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide.