Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140207152904/@comment-24376429-20140207200329

Forestfleet wrote: I have to ask: Why don't they just give the dang rice to the starving Africans? Is there something I'm missing here? Ever notice the ads on the site?

Everytime you view an ad FreeRice gets enough money to pay for the equivalent of 10 grains of rice. They then donate this but add a game as a hook to get you to keep raising money.