It’s too good to be true; the 21st century has brought a new innovative website, Freerice.com. Now let me explain.
Here is what the website looks like, and as you can see on the left are where the questions are located. There’s always four options and all you have to do is click on the right answer. For each question that you answer correctly, you donate 10 grains of rice to someone in need. (To be more correct, the World Food Programme donates it as they are the ones who own the website.) The progress is tracked by the bowl of rice on the right which fills up as you collect rice and resets every time you hit 100 grains. (I’m assuming that this is because it takes 100 grains of rice to fill a bowl?)
There are a lot of categories within the humanities and sciences so you can choose which category to play from. The questions are not at all very hard (unless you choose level 60 English vocabulary) so it’s easy to get into a momentum and become addicted to the rewarding feeling of getting so many questions right. You can also be rewarded by the feeling of knowing that you’re donating rice to those in need just by clicking a button on your computer screen.
You can also join groups on this website, whether your group is made of friends or complete strangers, and track how much rice has been donated as a collective. It’s nice to see how much one person can do, but I think the real driving point is seeing how much difference you can make as a collective. (If you decide to sign up, you can join my group with this link here!)
For more ways to help, check out the World Food Programme website. It’s the little things that count, so even if you don’t want to go out and volunteer today, you can at least answer some fun trivia questions.
