It’s been more than 20 years since Band Aid pleaded for us to Feed the world, but finally the message is sinking in – by those playing a vocabulary game online.
Free Rice is the brainchild of John Breen. His son was struggling with vocab in school, so he created a word tutor, then added a twist. At the website Free Rice dot com, you earn 20 grains of rice with each correct word, rice that is donated to the United Nations World Food Program.
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