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From vision to action
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About Freerice.com
1 Freerice is a nonprofit website that is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme. Freerice has two goals:
• Provideeducationtoeveryoneforfree.
• Helpendworldhungerbyprovidingrice to hungry people for free.
2 Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your education can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.
3 Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide.
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Free Rice Online Quiz Game
4 Freerice is an online internet game that donates 20 grains of rice to the World Food Programme (WFP) for every word that is correctly defined. WFP, the United Nations frontline organization fighting hunger, distributes the rice to the hungry. WFP uses
the donations from the site to purchase rice locally, both feeding people in need and stimulating local economies.
5 Already, the site has raised enough rice to feed over 1.5 million people for a day. The game has been embraced by young and old alike, proving to be an excellent tool for prepping for the SATs or to brush up on vocabulary words. Teachers have been using the game to teach both vocabulary and the value of helping others in need.
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Read and Respond
Think about the cause or issue that the person is fighting for in your independent reading book. What personal, political, or social connections exist between that cause or issue and the person?
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